To conceive
יָחַםStrong’s H3179yacham (ya-cham)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yacham is the Hebrew word usually translated “mated”, “being in heat of” and “mate her”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.”
Meaning
- To be hot, conceive(Qal) · (Piel)
How it's translated
- and they mated 2
- being in heat of 1
- to mate her 1
- mated 1
- she conceived me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- Genesis 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
- Genesis 31:10And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
- Psalms 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Hebrew dictionary
יָחַם yacham · 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)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “conceive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONCEIVE, verb transitive
[Latin, to take.]
- To receive into the womb, and breed; to begin the formation of the embryo or fetus of animal.“Then shall she be free and conceive seed” Numbers 5:28“Elisabeth hath conceived a son in her old age” Luke 1:36“In sin did my mother conceive me” Psalms 51:5
- To form in the mind; to imagine; to devise.“They conceive mischief and bring forth vanity” Job 15:35“Nebuchadnezzar hath conceived a purpose against you” Jeremiah 49:30
- To form an idea in the mind; to understand; to comprehend.
- To think; to be of opinion; to have an idea; to imagine.
All definitions and other forms of “conceive”
CONCEIVE, verb intransitive
- To have a fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.“Thou shalt conceive and bear a son” Judges 13:3
- To think; to have a conception or idea.
- To understand; to comprehend; to have a complete idea of; as, I cannot conceive by what means this event has been produced.
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.