Yacham means “be hot” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3179 — methistemi (“transfer”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3179 יָחַם (yacham) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yacham (yaw-kham') v. 1. probably to be hot 2. (figuratively) to conceive It has 9 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include hot, heat, they, and conceive. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
yacham (yaw-kham') v. 1. probably to be hot 2. (figuratively) to conceive [a primitive root] KJV: get heat, be hot, conceive, be warm.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3179. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to conceive
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yacham, 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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9 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And 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.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And 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.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3179.
And 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.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And 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.
And 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.
Lest 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.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
Then 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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3179, grouped by book.
Yacham (Strong's H3179) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "be hot". yacham (yaw-kham') v. 1. probably to be hot 2. (figuratively) to conceive
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's H3179 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3179 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hot, heat, they, and conceive. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
