Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2524
חָם
chamkhawm
father-in-law
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2524is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2524
a father-in-law (as in affinity)
The King James renders it: father in law.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
cham is rendered "father-in-law". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:13When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
Genesis 38:13חָמִ֛יךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- father-in-law her3
- father-in-law your1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָם | cham | hot | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חָמִ֖יהָ2
- חָמִ֙יהָ֙1
- חָמִ֛יךְ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2fs
Genesis
two uses
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- חָמִ֛יךְchamikhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: father-in-law your
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
- חָמִ֙יהָ֙chamihanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: father-in-law her
1 Samuel
two uses
Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
- חָמִ֖יהָchamihanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: father-in-law her
And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.
- חָמִ֖יהָchamihanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: father-in-law her
The letters
Gematria 48· 608 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.