Strong H2552חָמַם

to warm

Transliteration
châmam
Pronunciation
khaw-mam'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to be hot (literally or figuratively): - enflame {self} get (have) {heat} be (wax) {hot} ({be} wax) warm ({self} at).

Detailed definition

1) to be hot, become warm
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be or grow warm
1a2) of passion (fig.)
1b) (Niphal) to become aroused, inflame oneself with
1c) (Piel) to warm
1d) (Hithpael) to warm oneself

In the Bible

Strong H2552 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • be2
  • wax2
  • heat2
  • warm2
  • enflaming1
  • hot1
  • thereof1
  • warmeth1
  • yea1

First verses

  1. Exodus 16:21
    And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
  2. 1 Kings 1:2
    Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
  3. 2 Kings 4:34
    And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
  4. Job 31:20
    If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
  5. Job 39:14
    Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
  6. Psalms 39:3
    My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
  7. Ecclesiastes 4:11
    Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
  8. Isaiah 44:15
    Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
  9. Isaiah 44:16
    He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
  10. Isaiah 47:14
    Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
  11. Isaiah 57:5
    Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
  12. Hosea 7:7
    They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
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