Chûwm — H2345

Definition

adjective

sunburnt or swarthy (blackish)

1. dark colour, darkened, dark brown or black

Usually translated as

brown

Origin

from an unused root meaning to be warm, i.e. (by implication)

Greek equivalents

• leukós (G3022)
• poikílos (G4164)

Occurrences

Chûwm occurs 4 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4)

• Genesis 30:32 — I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown (חוּם֙) cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
• Genesis 30:33 — So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown (וְחוּם֙) among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
• Genesis 30:35 — And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown (ח֖וּם) among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
• Genesis 30:40 — And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown (ח֖וּם) in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.