Father-in-law
חָםStrong’s H2524cham
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cham is the Hebrew word usually translated “father-in-law her” and “father-in-law your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.”
Meaning
- Father-in-law, husband's father
How it's translated
- father-in-law her 3
- father-in-law your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- 1 Samuel 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 38:25When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.
- 1 Samuel 4:19And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
- 1 Samuel 4:21And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
Hebrew dictionary
חָם cham · father-in-law
father-in-law, husband's father
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fatherinlaw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
F'ATHER-IN-LAW, noun
The father of one's husband or wife; and a man who marries a woman who has children by a former husband is called the father in law or step-father of those children.
All definitions and other forms of “fatherinlaw”
F'ATHER, verb transitive
- To adopt; to take the child of another as one's own.
- To adopt any thing as one's own; to profess to be the author.
- To ascribe or charge to one as his offspring or production; with on.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.