Lexical Summary chum: darkened, dark brown or black Original Word: חוּםTransliteration: chum Phonetic Spelling: (khoom) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: darkened, dark brown or black Meaning: darkened, dark brown or black Strong's Concordance brown From an unused root meaning to be warm, i.e. (by implication) sunburnt or swarthy (blackish) -- brown. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2345. chum חוּם adjective darkened, dark brown or black, only of colour of sheep (in Genesis 30, J); — בכשׂבים וכלשֶֿׂהחֿוּם Genesis 30:32, בכ ׳וְחוּם 30:33, 35, בְּצאֹן וכלחֿוּם 30:40 (clause probably interpolated Ol Hup De We Di). חוֺמָה see below חמה. |