כִּמְהָם
kim.ham
Chimham
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe word כִּמְהָם (kim.ham) is a proper name for a person. In the biblical text, it occurs three times and is consistently used as a name, likely denoting the person by that name. This suggests that the name carried significance or was noteworthy to the authors of the biblical text. As a proper name, its usage is limited to referring to a specific individual, without any other discernible connection to other biblical themes or concepts. The name itself is not broken down into other components or described in any more detail within the provided data. The significance of this name, aside from its use in the biblical narrative, is uncertain without further context. Given its limited usage as a proper name, it is difficult to draw conclusions about the cultural or personal significance of this person in the time period in which the biblical text was written. However, its inclusion in the text suggests that the biblical authors considered this person important or significant in the context of the narrative they are recording.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
3 total occurrences across the text
Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”
2 Samuel 19:38The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.”
2 Samuel 19:40So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.