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chum: Brown, dark, swarthy

Original Word: חוּם
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: chuwm
Pronunciation: koom
Phonetic Spelling: (khoom)
KJV: brown
NASB: black, black ones
Word Origin: [from an unused root meaning to be warm;]

1. (by implication) sunburnt or swarthy
2. (of coloration) dark complexion, brown or blackish

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
brown

From an unused root meaning to be warm, i.e. (by implication) sunburnt or swarthy (blackish) -- brown.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
darkened, dark brown or black
NASB Translation
black (3), black ones (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
חוּם adjective darkened, dark brown or black, only of colour of sheep (in Genesis 30, J); — וכלשֶֿׂהחֿוּם בכשׂבים Genesis 30:32, ׳וְחוּם בכ Genesis 30:33,35, וכלחֿוּם בְּצאֹן Genesis 30:40 (clause probably interpolated Ol Hup De We Di).

חוֺמָה see below חמה.

Forms and Transliterations
וְחוּם֙ וחום ח֖וּם חוּם֙ חום chum ḥūm veChum wə·ḥūm wəḥūm
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Englishman's Concordance
Genesis 30:32
HEB: וְכָל־ שֶׂה־ חוּם֙ בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔ים וְטָל֥וּא
NAS: and every black one
KJV: cattle, and all the brown cattle
INT: and every one black the lambs and the spotted

Genesis 30:33
HEB: וְטָל֜וּא בָּֽעִזִּ֗ים וְחוּם֙ בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔ים גָּנ֥וּב
NAS: among the goats and black among the lambs,
KJV: among the goats, and brown among the sheep,
INT: and spotted the goats and black the lambs stolen

Genesis 30:35
HEB: בּ֔וֹ וְכָל־ ח֖וּם בַּכְּשָׂבִ֑ים וַיִּתֵּ֖ן
NAS: in it, and all the black ones among the sheep,
KJV: [and] every one that had [some] white in it, and all the brown among the sheep,
INT: white one the black the sheep and gave

Genesis 30:40
HEB: עָקֹ֛ד וְכָל־ ח֖וּם בְּצֹ֣אן לָבָ֑ן
NAS: and all the black in the flock
KJV: the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock
INT: the striped and all the black the flock of Laban

4 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 2345
4 Occurrences


ḥūm — 3 Occ.
wə·ḥūm — 1 Occ.

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