Hebrew adv · H2600
חִנָּם
chinnamkhin-nawm'
for nothing
32 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chinnâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2600is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 15 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2600
gratis, i.e. devoid of cost, reason or advantage
The King James renders it: without a cause (cost, wages), causeless, to cost nothing, free(-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought, in vain.
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
chinnam is rendered "for nothing". It stands 32 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.
- Six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:15Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Genesis 29:15חִנָּ֑ם
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
- without cause19
- for nothing5
- without paying4
- in vain3
- ¿ in vain1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 32, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- חִנָּ֑ם9
- חִנָּֽם׃8
- חִ֝נָּ֗ם3
- חִנָּ֣ם2
- חִנָּ֖ם2
- חִנָּ֔ם2
- הַֽחִנָּ֔ם1
- חִ֫נָּ֥ם1
- חִנָּ֗ם1
- חִ֭נָּם1
- חִנָּם֙1
- חִנָּ֤ם1
The grammar of each form
- adverb31HD
- question particle + adverb1HTi/D
Genesis
one use
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: for nothing
Exodus
two uses
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
- חִנָּֽם׃chinamadverbtagged: without paying
If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.
- חִנָּ֖םchinamadverbtagged: without paying
Numbers
one use
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: for nothing
1 Samuel
two uses
He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”
- חִנָּֽם׃chinamadverbtagged: without cause
then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your maidservant.”
- חִנָּ֔םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
2 Samuel
one use
“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: without paying
1 Kings
one use
And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.
- חִנָּ֗םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
1 Chronicles
one use
“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
- חִנָּֽם׃chinamadverbtagged: for nothing
Job
four uses
Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
- הַֽחִנָּ֔םhachinamquestion particle + adverbtagged: ¿ in vain
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
- חִנָּֽם׃chinamadverbtagged: without cause
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- חִנָּֽם׃chinamadverbtagged: without cause
For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Psalms
six uses
For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
- חִנָּ֣םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
- חִ֝נָּ֗םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
- חִ֝נָּ֗םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
- חִ֫נָּ֥םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
- חִנָּֽם׃chinamadverbtagged: without cause
Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Proverbs
six uses
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
- חִנָּֽם׃chinamadverbtagged: without cause
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
- חִ֭נָּםchinomadverbtagged: in vain
Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
- חִנָּ֣םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.
- חִ֝נָּ֗םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Isaiah
two uses
For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
- חִנָּ֖םchinamadverbtagged: for nothing
And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: for nothing
Jeremiah
one use
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- חִנָּ֔םchinamadverbtagged: without paying
Lamentations
one use
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
- חִנָּֽם׃chinamadverbtagged: without cause
Ezekiel
two uses
And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
- חִנָּם֙chinamadverbtagged: in vain
They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
- חִנָּ֤םchinamadverbtagged: without cause
Malachi
one use
“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
- חִנָּ֑םchinamadverbtagged: in vain
The letters
Gematria 98· 658 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.