H2524 - חָם (châm)

H2524 חָם (châm) khawm

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

father-in-law

Strong's Definition

a father-in-law (as in affinity)

Derivation: from the same as H2346 (חוֹמָה);

KJV Usage: father in law.

TWOT Reference: 674a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) father-in-law, husband's father

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3995

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

father-in-law, husband's father

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חָם châm BDB Definition: 1) father-in-law, husbands father Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from the same as H2346 Same Word by TWOT Number: 674a Total KJV Occurrences: 8

Bible Occurrences (4)

38:13 38:25

4:19 4:21

Genesis 38:13

When Tamar...... was told, Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,

Genesis 38:25

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?

1 Samuel 4:19

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.

1 Samuel 4:21

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.