חָם châm

Meaning

a father-in-law (as in affinity)

In the King James Version: father in law.

Derivation: from the same as H2346 (חוֹמָה);

Where it is used

• Genesis 38:13 When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
• Genesis 38:25 As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
• 1 Samuel 4:19 Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
• 1 Samuel 4:21 And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.