H3179

יָחַם

ya.chamH:V

to conceive

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)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[יָחַם] verb be hot, Pi`el conceive (Arabic see inclauerunt pecora, Frey; Aramaic יְחַם be hot, usually of sexual impulse of animals) —

Qal see חמם. Pi`el Perfect 3 feminine singular suffix יֶחֱמַתְנִי Ps 51:7 in sin my mother conceived me (|| חוֺלָ֑לְתִּי); Infinitive construct of heat of cattle in breeding, conception; בְּכָליַֿחֵם Gen 30:41 at every breeding-heat of the flock (J); בְּעֵת יַחֵם Gen 31:10 at the time of the flock's being hot in breeding (E); suffix 3 feminine plural לְיַחֲמֶנָּה Gen 30:41 in order that they might have breeding-heat (J).



יחם (√ of following; see Biblical Hebrew יָחַם, whence חֵמָה).


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