יָחַם H3179

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be in heat

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

conceive

Note

Of animals in rut (30:38–41; 31:10); "in sin my mother was in heat with me" (Ps 51:7). Near חָמַם "be hot" and חֵמָה "fury"

Rulings

25, 39

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Occurrences (5)

30:38 And he positioned the sticks which he had peeled in the runnels, in the troughs of the waters where the flock would come to drink, over against the flock; and they were in heat when they came to drink.
30:39 And the flock were in heat at the sticks, and the flock bore striped, speckled and patched.
30:41 And it was: whenever the knit ones of the flock were in heat, then Jacob would put the sticks before the eyes of the flock in the runnels, for them to be in heat among the sticks.
30:41 And it was: whenever the knit ones of the flock were in heat, then Jacob would put the sticks before the eyes of the flock in the runnels, for them to be in heat among the sticks.

31:10 And it was, at the time the flock was in heat, and I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and look, the he-goats going up on the flock were striped, speckled and dappled.