Biblical Hebrew

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Strong Hebrew #2092 - זָהַם zaham (to be foul)


Original Word:זָהַם
Transliteration:zaham
Definition:to be foul, loathsome
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(zaw-ham')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

abhor

A primitive root; to be rancid, i.e. (transitively) to loathe -- abhor.


Englishman's Concordance

1) (Piel) to loathe, be foul, be loathsome
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 530

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[זָהַם] verbbe foul, loathsome, but only

Pi`elcausat. (Late Hebrew id., be foul, Pi`el make foul; Aramaic זְהִיםfoul, make foul, fetid; Arabic stink, be greasy) —

Pi`elPerfect3feminine singular suffix 3 masculine singular וְזִהֲמַתּוּ חַיָּתוֺ לָ֑חֶם (consecutive) Job 33:20his life maketh it, bread, loathsome to him ("" ונפשׁו מַאֲכַל תַּאֲוָה) (On suffix see Ges§ 131, 2, R. 4; Dr1Sam 21:14: according to Siegf the word is hopelessly corrupt.)


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2092. זָהַם (zaham) — 1 Occurrence

Job 33:20
HEB: וְזִֽהֲמַ֣תּוּ חַיָּת֣וֹ לָ֑חֶם
NAS: So that his life loathes bread,
KJV: So that his life abhorreth bread,
INT:loathes his life bread