Heat
חֹםStrong’s H2527chom
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chom is the Hebrew word usually translated “heat”, “when heat of” and “like heat of”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
Meaning
- Heat, hot
How it's translated
- heat 3
- when heat of 2
- and heat 1
- like heat of 1
- heat of 1
- like heat 1
- in heat of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
- Genesis 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 18:1And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
- 1 Samuel 11:9And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
- 1 Samuel 11:11And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
- 1 Samuel 21:6So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
- 2 Samuel 4:5And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
- Job 24:19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹם chom · heat
heat, hot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAT, noun
[Latin aestus, for haestus, or caestus.]
- heat as a cause of sensation, that is, the matter of heat is considered to be a subtil fluid, contained in a greater or less degree in all bodies.
- heat as a sensation, is the effect produced on the sentient organs of animals, by the passage of caloric, disengaged from surrounding bodies, to the organs.
- Hot air; hot weather; as the heat of the tropical climates.
- Any accumulation or concentration of the matter of heat or caloric; as the heat of the body; the heat of a furnace; a red heat; a white heat; a welding heat
All definitions and other forms of “heat”
- The state of being once heated or hot.
- A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- A single effort in running; a course at a race.
- Redness of the face; flush.
- Animal excitement; violent action or agitation of the system.
- Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as the heat of battle.
- Violence; ardor; as the heat of party.
- Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation; as the heat of passion.
- Ardor; fervency; animation in thought or discourse.
- Fermentation.
HEAT, verb transitive
[Latin odi, osus, for hodi, hosus; L aestus, for haestus, heat tide; Gr. to burn, and the English haste and hoist are probably of the same family.]
- To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to be hot; as, to heat an oven or a furnace; to heat iron.
- To make feverish; as, to heat the blood.
- To warm with passion or desire; to excite; to rouse into action.
- To agitate the blood and spirits with action; to excite animal action.
HEAT, verb intransitive
To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or extrication of latent heat
- To grow warm or hot.
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.