Hebrew verb · H3179
יָחַם
yachamyaw-kham'
to conceive
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâcham
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3179is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3179
probably to be hot; figuratively, to conceive
The King James renders it: get heat, be hot, conceive, be warm.
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
yacham is rendered "to conceive". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:38Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
Genesis 30:38וַיֵּחַ֖מְנָה
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
- and they mated2
- being in heat of1
- mated1
- she conceived me1
- to mate her1
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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- וַיֶּחֱמ֥וּ1
- וַיֵּחַ֖מְנָה1
- יַחֵם֮1
- יַחֵ֣ם1
- יֶֽחֱמַ֥תְנִי1
- לְיַחְמֵ֖נָּה1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)2HVpcc
- Hc/Vqw3fp1Hc/Vqw3fp
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Vpcc/Sp3fs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3fs/Sp1bs
Genesis
five uses
Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
- וַיֵּחַ֖מְנָהvaiyechamnahHc/Vqw3fptagged: and they mated
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
- וַיֶּחֱמ֥וּvaiyechemuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they mated
Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
- יַחֵם֮yachemverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: being in heat of
- לְיַחְמֵ֖נָּהleyachmenahpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to mate her
When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
- יַחֵ֣םyachemverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: mated
Psalms
one use
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- יֶֽחֱמַ֥תְנִיyechematniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: she conceived me
The letters
Gematria 58· 618 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.