Lexical Definition

‎חָם‎ châm (khawm) father-in-law ^H:N-M
from the same as ‎חוֹמָה‎

father in law.

• a father-in-law (as in affinity)

1) father-in-law, husband's father

See Greek: πενθερός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. ‎חָם‎ husband's father, see ‎חמה‎.

II. [‎חָם‎] noun masculine husband's father (Late Hebrew id., of husband's or wife's father, so Aramaic ‎חֲמָא‎; Arabic husband's male relation (father, brother, paternal uncle), but also wife's father, etc.; Ethiopic Assyrian êmû, Zim^{BP 48}); — only suffix ‎חָמִ֫יךָ‎ Gen 38:13; Gen 38:25, of Judah as Tamar's father-in-law; ‎חָמִיהָ‎ 1Sam 4:19; 1Sam 4:21 of Eli, father-in-law of Phinehas' wife.

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