חוּם
chum
“darkened”
Definition
sunburnt or swarthy (blackish)
from an unused root meaning to be warm, i.e. (by implication)
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
H:A
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
חוּם appears 4 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”
That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
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