H2345 - חוּם (chûwm)

H2345 חוּם (chûwm) khoom

Hebrew

Adjective (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

darkened

Strong's Definition

sunburnt or swarthy (blackish)

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to be warm, i.e. (by implication)

KJV Usage: brown.

TWOT Reference: 625a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) dark colour, darkened, dark brown or black

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3022 G4164

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

dark colour, darkened, dark brown or black

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חוּם chûm BDB Definition: 1) dark colour, darkened, dark brown or black Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to be warm Same Word by TWOT Number: 625a Total KJV Occurrences: 4

Bible Occurrences (4)

30:32 30:33 30:35 30:40

Genesis 30:32

Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.

Genesis 30:33

So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check... on my wages in the future.... If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.

Genesis 30:35

That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat— every one that had any white on it— and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.

Genesis 30:40

Jacob set apart the young, but made the [rest] face... the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.