חוּפָם
chu.pham
Hupham
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Hupham: A Single Biblical Reference Based on the lexical data provided, Hupham (חוּפָם) appears only once in the Hebrew Bible, making it impossible to establish a range of usage or semantic patterns from biblical evidence alone. As a proper name rendered in English transliteration, it functions as a personal identifier rather than a word with semantic content that can be analyzed for meaning in the traditional lexical sense. The single occurrence severely limits what can be determined about this term's significance within biblical literature. Unlike common words that appear multiple times across different contexts—allowing scholars to map their semantic range—a hapax legomenon (one-time occurrence) provides no comparative framework for understanding nuance or usage patterns. The word's status as a proper name suggests it identifies a specific individual or family group in biblical genealogy or narrative. Without additional occurrences or context from the provided data, further analysis would require information beyond the lexicon entry itself. The minimal evidence leaves open fundamental questions about the name's origins, whether it derives from other Hebrew roots, and what historical or tribal associations it may have carried for ancient audiences.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text