Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #2559 - חָמַק chamaq


Original Word:חָמַק
Transliteration: chamaq
Phonetic Spelling:(khaw-mak')
Definition:to turn away
Part of Speech:Verb
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

go about, withdraw self

A primitive root; properly, to wrap; hence, to depart (i.e. Turn about) -- go about, withdraw self.


Englishman's Concordance

1) to withdraw, turn around, turn away
1a) (Qal) to turn away
1b) (Hithpael) to turn about, vacillate, turn hither and thither
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 682

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חָמַקverbturn away (intransitive) —

QalPerfect3masculine singular עָבָ֑ר׳וְדוֺדִי חSongs 5:6and my beloved had turned away, passed on.

Hithpa`elImperfect2feminine singular עַדמָֿתַי תִּתְחַמָּקִין הַבַּת הַשּׁוֺבֵבָהJeremiah 31:22turn hither and thither, see Gf VB.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2559. חָמַק (chamaq) — 2 Occurrences

Songs 5:6
HEB:לְדוֹדִ֔י וְדוֹדִ֖י חָמַ֣ק עָבָ֑ר נַפְשִׁי֙
NAS: But my beloved had turned away [and] had gone!
KJV: but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone:
INT: beloved my beloved had turned had gone my heart

Jeremiah 31:22
HEB:עַד־ מָתַי֙ תִּתְחַמָּקִ֔ין הַבַּ֖ת הַשּֽׁוֹבֵבָ֑ה
NAS: long will you go here and there, O faithless
KJV:How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding
INT: against How go first faithless

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