Strong H3179יָחַם
to conceive
- Transliteration
- yâcham
- Pronunciation
- yaw-kham'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; Probably to be hot; figuratively to conceive: - get {heat} be {hot} {conceive} be warm.
Detailed definition
1) to be hot, conceive
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be hot, become hot
1a2) to mate (of animals)
1a3) to be or become hot (fig. of anger)
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to conceive (sexually)
1b2) to be in heat (of animals)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be hot, become hot
1a2) to mate (of animals)
1a3) to be or become hot (fig. of anger)
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to conceive (sexually)
1b2) to be in heat (of animals)
In the Bible
Strong H3179 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- conceive5
- be3
- gat1
First verses
- Genesis 30:38And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
- Genesis 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- Genesis 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
- Genesis 31:10And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
- Deuteronomy 19:6Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
- 1 Kings 1:1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
- Psalms 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Ecclesiastes 4:11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
- Ezekiel 24:11Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.