Lexicon cham: husband's father Original Word: חָםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: cham Phonetic Spelling: (khawm) Short Definition: father-in-law NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionhusband's father NASB Translationfather-in-law (4).
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, ZimBP 48); — only suffix חָמִ֫יךָ Genesis 38:13,25, of Judah as Tamar's father-in-law; חָמִיהָ 1 Samuel 4:19,21 of Eli, father-in-law of Phinehas' wife.
Strong's father in law From the same as chowmah; a father-in-law (as in affinity) -- father in law. see HEBREW chowmah |
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