Lexical Summary cham: husband's father Original Word: חָםTransliteration: cham Phonetic Spelling: (khawm) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: husband's father Meaning: husband's father Strong's Concordance father in law From the same as chowmah; a father-in-law (as in affinity) -- father in law. see HEBREW chowmah Brown-Driver-Briggs H2524. cham 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. |
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