Word entries are of the format:
Hebrew Word – English Transliteration – Meanings – Word Construction – Notes
[Color Code, Transliteration Chart, and Chart of Letter Meanings are at the bottom of this page.]
ח
חבא ChBA hide
ח = separate + בוא = come in
חבל ChBL region / destroy / rope / pledge
‘separate… tent… extending’
חבק ChBQ embrace
ח = separate + דבק = cling
חבר ChBR companion / friend / welt / bruise / stripe / join / associate
for ‘companion / friend’:
‘separate… tent… man’
for ‘welt’:
‘separate… tent… body’
– meaning to damage.
חבש ChBSh bind / wrap firmly
‘wall… tent… doubles’
– may describe how tent walls are secured (perhaps with multiple cords).
חג ChG festival gathering / feast
‘separate… gather’
חגב ChGB locust / grasshopper
‘separate… gather… tent’
– to physically destroy crops (that would be gathered to one’s tent).
חגג ChGG celebrate
חג = feast + ג = gather
חגר ChGR gird / put on / covering
‘separate… gather… body’
If you gather something separate to your body, you ‘put it on’ or wear it.
also: ‘separate… move away… body’
חד ChD one (*Aramaic)
חדל ChDL cease / refrain
‘separate… path through… extending’
חדקל ChDQL Chiddeqel (Tigris river)
ח = separate + דק = thin + ל = extending
– the Tigris river is so shallow past Baghdad that only rafts can go further.
חדש ChDSh new moon / month / new / engraver
‘separate… path through… doubles’
– ‘doubles’ refers to multiple similar things and here likely pertains to the idea of multiple moons (or multiple months).
חדר ChDR room
‘separate… path through… body’
חוד ChWD tie a knot
‘wall… add to… path through’
– ‘wall’ refers to its function as a stopper.
חידה ChYDH riddle
חוה ChWH Eve
– derived from חיה meaning ‘living’.
חוה ChWH declare (*Aramaic)
חוח ChWCh thorn
‘separate… add to… wall’
– perhaps refers to the thorn which functions to separate things being part of a road block (as an effective wall).
חול ChWL sand
‘separate… add to… far reaching’
– describes the extent of a multitude of desert sands.
חול ChWL whirl / dance / writhe
חוילה ChWYLH circle
חוס ChWS pity
‘separate… add to… divisions’
– perhaps a response separate from the divisions, or damage, that has occurred.
חוץ ChWTs outside
‘separate… add to… formation’
– what is separate to a formation is what is outside of it.
חיצון ChYTsWN outer
חוש ChWSh ready / eager / hurry / hasten
חוץ = outside + ש = fill
– first occurs in Numbers 32:17.
חזה ChZH animal breast / prophesy / see
for ‘animal breast’:
חזק = strong + ה = be
for ‘prophecy’:
‘separate… result… shall be’
– as in, an occurrence certain to happen but is independent of the now and not otherwise able to be foreseen.
חזון ChZWN vision
חזק ChZQ be strong
‘wall… result… enduring’
חטא ChTA sin
‘separate… surround… source’
– likely describes a target miss.
or: ‘separate… hidden… source’
חטאת ChTATh sin / sin offering
חטה ChTH wheat
‘separate… surround… be’
חיה ChYH living
‘separate… bring forth… shall be’
This word is defined by the biblical teaching that all living things (trees, animals, etc.) have been given the blessing (shall be) to multiply by producing (bringing forth) seeds separate from themselves.
חיוה ChYWH one living
חיל ChYL army / strength / wealth / writhe
ח = wall + איל = strong
חיק ChYQ wrap arms around / bosom
‘separate… bring forth… enduring’
חך ChK mouth / palate
‘separate… carry’
חכה ChKH to wait
‘separate… carry… be’
– perhaps meaning that if things are carried separate, one will be waiting while the other is being carried.
חכם ChKM wisdom
‘separate… carry… physical’
חלב ChLB fat / milk
‘separate… extending… tent’
חלה ChLH worn / sick / rubbed / cake / entreat
for ‘worn’:
‘separate… extending… be’
for ‘sick’:
‘separate… far reaching… be’
– perhaps meaning quarantined.
חלי ChLY sickness
חליל ChLYL far be it
‘separate… far reaching… bring… far reaching’
חלל ChLL pierce / weakened / profane / begin
‘separate… extending… far reaching’
חלון ChLWN window
תחלה ThChLH beginning
חלם ChLM dream / be strong
‘separate… extending… physical’
חלף ChLPh change / pass
‘separate… far reaching… turn (change)’
חליפה ChLYPhH change
חלץ ChLTs withdraw / equip / deliver
‘separate… extending… action’
To separate from further advancing (extending) action is to ‘withdraw’.
חלצים ChLTsYM loins
חלק ChLQ divide / portion / smooth / flattering
‘separate… extending… enduring’
חלקה ChLQH portion
מחלקה MChLQH division
חם ChM heat / husband’s father
‘separate… physical’
חמות ChMWTh mother-in-law
חמאה ChMAH curds / butter
‘separate… water (a liquid)… first… be’
This is nearly an entire cooking recipe in one word. When milk (a liquid represented by water) is boiled it separates into two parts: the resulting liquid is whey and solid curds float at the top being the first part of the result in the pot.
חמד ChMD make a treasure
‘separate… physical…path through’
חמה ChMH wall
‘separate… physical… be’
חמור ChMWR male donkey
ח = wall + מרה = rebellious
– probably refers to stubbornness.
חמישי ChMYShY fifth
‘separate… physical… make… fill… bring forth’
-first occurs in Genesis 1:23 as day ‘five’ when God created the fish and birds and blessed them to multiply and become many. This is the first blessing found in the scriptures.
חמל ChML pity
‘separate… physical… extending’
חמם ChMM to warm / make noise / confusion
חם = heat + ם = physical
חמס ChMS violence / wrong
‘separate… physical… pieces’
חמץ ChMTs leaven / yeast
ח = separate + מצא = unleavened bread
חמר ChMR homer / wine / mortar / clay
‘separate… physical… body’
– a homer was a measurement.
חמש ChMSh five
– derived from חמישי meaning fifth.
חמשים ChMShYM fifty
חן ChN grace / favor
‘separate… ahead’
– describes not getting the ill fate one deserves.
חנם ChNM for nothing
תחנה ThChNH supplication
תחנון ThChNWN supplication
חנה ChNH camp
‘separate (or wall)… ahead… be’
חנוך ChNWK Enoch
‘separate… ahead… add to… vessel (or carry)’
– Enoch was the first person in the bible who didn’t die but rather God took him.
חנית ChNYTh spear
‘separate… emerging… bring… together’
חנף ChNPh pollute / godless
חן = grace + ף = turn (change)
חסד ChSD covenant related kindness
‘separate… pieces… connection’
– describes the bond of kindness and allegiance created with a covenant.
חסה ChSH take refuge
‘separate… divisions… be’
– to be removed from the destruction (the divisions).
מחסה MChSH refuge
חסר ChSR lack / decrease
‘separate… pieces… body’
חפה ChPhH to cover
‘separate… turn (change)… be’
or: ח = separate + פה = mouth
חפז ChPhZ hurry
‘separate… breath… result’
חפץ ChPhTs incline to / delight / willing
‘separate… turn (change)… action’
חפר ChPhR dig / search / ashamed
for ‘dig’:
‘separate… turn… body’
for ‘search’:
‘separate… turn (change)… man’
– decribes the reason to search: something being lost.
חפש ChPhSh spread loose / search / disguise
‘separate… turn (change)… fill’
or: ‘separate… turn (change)… doubles’
– ‘doubles’ may refer to a flock in this context.
חפשי ChPhShY free
חצ ChTs shoot an arrow
‘separate… formation’
– meaning: to divide.
חצב ChTsB hew
‘separate… formation… tent’
or: ‘wall… formation… tent’
חצה ChTsH divide
‘separate… formation… be’
מחצית MChTsYTh half
חצר ChTsR enclosure / courtyard / to trumpet
‘wall… formation… body’
חציר ChTsYR grass
חק ChQ statute
‘separate… enduring’
חקק ChQQ inscribe / decree
‘wall… enduring… venerated’
חקר ChQR search
ח = separate + קרה = befall
חר ChR noble
‘separate… man’
חרב ChRB sword / dry / waste / Horeb (mountain)
for ‘sword’:
‘separate… body… tent’
for ‘waste / dry’:
or: ‘separate… man… tent’
– meaning not inhabitable.
חרד ChRD shake / tremble / fear
unknown
perhaps: ‘separate… man… path through’
חרה ChRH burn / be angry
‘separate… body… shall be’
חרטם ChRTM magician
‘separate… body… hidden… physical’
חרם ChRM ban / devote / destroy / devoted thing
‘separate… body… physical’
חרף ChRPh reproach / disgrace / shame / harvest time / winter
for ‘reproach / disgrace’:
חרה = burn + ף = breath
for ‘reproach / disgrace’:
‘separate… body… turn (change)’
חרץ ChRTs cut / decide
‘separate… body… formation’
חרש ChRSh plow / engrave / earthenware / deaf / silent / plan / potsherd
‘separate… body… fill’
חשב ChShB to think / designer
‘separate… fill… devotion’
חשה ChShH silent / still
‘separate… fill… be’
חשך ChShK darkness / spare / refrain
‘separate… fill… vessel’
If you separate the (once common) stone or clay jar (vessel) from what fills it, what remains in it is ‘darkness’.
חשן ChShN breastplate
‘separate… doubles… ahead’
חשף ChShPh scoop / bare
‘separate… fill… turn’
חשק ChShQ connecting rod (for curtain) / cling / love
‘separate… fill… enduring’
חת ChTh shattered / avoidance / dread / dismayed
‘separate… together’
מחתה MChThH terror / ruin / dissolution
חתה ChThH lay hold
תחת = under + ה = be
חתם ChThM to seal
‘separate… together… physical’
חותם ChWThM seal
חתן ChThN marry / groom / son-in-law / father-in-law
ח = separate + נתן = give
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Red = Unknown word construction.
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