זָ֑הַם
Zaham
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2093 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
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“Zaham” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name זהם (Zaham). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in 2 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at 2 Chronicles 11:19. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2093 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Zaham 1×
- American Standard Version: Zaham 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zaham 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zaham 1×
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Zaham = "loathing"
- the son of Rehoboam by Mahalath, David's granddaughter
Word origin
זָ֑הַם n.pr.m. (fr. above √ ?) a son of Rehoboam, 2 Ch 11:19.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זהם (zâham) (H2092) — to loathe.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זָהַם
- [to be glistening; cmp. צחן a. צחח)] to be filthy, smell offensively, be offensive.—Part. זוֹהֵם, or part. pass. זָהוּם. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 41ᶜ bot. ר"ל אמר ככוס ז׳ (not בכוס) R. L. says, It is like drinking out of an offensive cup; השותה בכוס ז׳ וכ׳ he who drinks (sacred wine &c.) out of &c. Y. Nidd. IV, end, 51ᵇ דם נידה זהום (Tosef. ib. IX, 10 זוהם; Bab. Nidd. 65ᵇ) the blood of a menstruant is sticky (or ill-smelling).
- 1. to smear plants with rancid oil for keeping off vermin, [oth. opin.: to cover a wound in a tree with dung and tie it up.] Shebi. II, 4. Y. ib. 33ᵈ (expl. מְזַהֲמִין of Mish.) מתלעין to keep the worms off. Ib. המְזַהֵם אינו וכ׳ oiling a plant is merely like appointing a watchman (it does not advance growth). Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵃ top, v. בָּחַל II.—Part. pass. מְזוּהָם, f. מְזוּהֶמֶת ill-smelling, filthy, offensive. Bekh. VI, 12 ומז׳ and an animal of offensive smell or sight. Ber. 53ᵇ מז׳ an offensive-looking priest. Y. Gitt. VIII, 49ᵈ top מז׳ היא מלפניו she is disgusting to him (on account of her conduct); a. e.—Pl. מְזוּהָמִים, מְזוּהָמִין; fem. מְזוּהָמוֹת. Ber. l. c. ידים מ׳ smelling hands (after a meal, when not perfumed). Lev. R. s. 16; Esth. R. to III, 1 מה … מ׳ וכ׳ as ordure is offensive, so is he (the leper); a. e.
- 2. to declare unfit for priestly or levitical service (or connection), to reject. Bekh. 47ᵃ אין מְזַהֲמִין וכ׳ the child is not rejected (as the child of a gentile).—Y. Yeb. X, 11ᵃ; XIII, 13ᵈ bot. ואין ב"ד מזהמין אותה but the court does not declare her unfit to marry a priest.
- 3. (v. זוֹהֲמָא) part. pass. מְזוּהָם, pl. מְזוּהָמִין inclined to lasciviousness, unchaste. Sabb. 145ᵇ bot.
- to become unfit for offering through offensiveness. Pesik. Vayhi, p. 10ᵃ לא הִזְהִימוּ (perh. to be read הוּזְהָמוּ Hof.; (Yalk. Num. 713 הוזמו, expl. חוסמו, corr. acc., or הוּמָמוּ as Num. R. s. 12, end, a. e., v. Bub. note to Pesik. l. c.).
זְהַם
- Part. pass. זְהִים q. v.
- to create aversion, to sicken. Lev. R. s. 16 (to the leper) לא תְזַהֵם ברייתא (ed. Wil. תזהום, read תְזַהֵים) do not sicken people with thy sight.
- 1. to be soiled, to empty the bowels. Targ. Ps. CVI, 20.
- 2. to become offensive. Ab. Zar. 26ᵃ לא מִיזְדְּהַמְנָא וכ׳ I do not desire to become offensive to my husband (get ungainly through nursing).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zaham). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(fatness), son of Rehoboam by Abihail the daughter of Eliab. (2 Chronicles 11:19)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
crime; filthiness; impurity
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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