Lexical Definition

‎יָחַם‎ yâcham (yaw-kham') to conceive ^H:V
a primitive root

get heat, be hot, conceive, be warm.

• probably to be hot
• figuratively, 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)

See Greek: γαστήρ

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎יָחַם‎] verb be hot, Pi`el conceive (Arabic see inclauerunt pecora, Frey; Aramaic ‎יְחַם‎ be hot, usually of sexual impulse of animals) —

Qal see ‎חמם‎. Pi`el Perfect 3 feminine singular suffix ‎יֶחֱמַתְנִי‎ Ps 51:7* in sin my mother conceived me (|| ‎חוֺלָ֑לְתִּי‎); Infinitive construct of heat of cattle in breeding, conception; ‎בְּכָליַֿחֵם‎ Gen 30:41 at every breeding-heat of the flock (J); ‎בְּעֵת‎ ‎יַחֵם‎ Gen 31:10 at the time of the flock's being hot in breeding (E); suffix 3 feminine plural ‎לְיַחֲמֶנָּה‎ Gen 30:41 in order that they might have breeding-heat (J).

‎יחם‎ (√ of following; see Biblical Hebrew ‎יָחַם‎, whence ‎חֵמָה‎).

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