Chamam means “enflame self” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2552 — kakopatheia (“suffering affliction”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2552 חָמַם (chamam) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chamam (khaw-mam') v. 1. to be hot (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include hot, have, warm, get, and waxed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chamam (khaw-mam') v. 1. to be hot (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root] KJV: enflame self, get (have) heat, be (wax) hot, (be, wax) warm (self, at).
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2552. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to warm
Usage: 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chamam, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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12 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
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.
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 stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2552.
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
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.
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 stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
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.
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:
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.
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2552, grouped by book.
Chamam (Strong's H2552) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "enflame self". chamam (khaw-mam') v. 1. to be hot (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's H2552 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2552 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hot, have, warm, get, waxed, and warmeth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.