חוּם H2345

Home gloss

dark

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

brown / black

Note

The colour of a sheep, only in Gen 30 (vv. 32–40); of the root of חָמַם "be hot," the scorched colour

Rulings

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Occurrences (4)

30:32 I will pass over among all your flock this day, removing from there every speckled and patched sheep, and every dark sheep among the lambs, and the patched and speckled among the goats; and it shall be my wage.
30:33 And my justice shall answer for me in the day of tomorrow, when you come over my wage before your face: every one that is not speckled and patched among the goats, and dark among the lambs, stolen it is with me."
30:35 And he removed on that day the bucks, the striped and the patched, and all the goats, the speckled and the patched, every one that had white in it, and every dark one among the lambs, and gave into the hand of his sons.
30:40 And the lambs Jacob separated, and he gave the face of the flock toward the striped and every dark one in the flock of Laban; and he set for himself droves alone, and did not set them by the flock of Laban.