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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - יָחַם

יָחַם

H3179

Transliteration: yâcham

Pronunciation: yaw-kham'

Definition: get heat


Original: יחם

Transliteration: yâcham

Phonetic: yaw-kham'

BDB Definition:

  1. to be hot, conceive
    1. (Qal)
      1. to be hot, become hot
      2. to mate (of animals)
      3. to be or become hot (figuratively of anger)
    2. (Piel)
      1. to conceive (sexually)
      2. to be in heat (of animals)

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 860

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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