2559. chamaq
Lexicon
chamaq: To withdraw, to turn aside, to flee

Original Word: חָמַק
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: chamaq
Pronunciation: khaw-mak'
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-mak')
KJV: go about, withdraw self
NASB: go here, go here and there, turned away
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. (properly) to wrap
2. (hence) to depart (i.e. turn about)

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.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to turn away
NASB Translation
go here (1), go here and there (1), turned away (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
חָמַק verb turn away (intransitive) —

Qal Perfect3masculine singular עָבָ֑ר ׳וְדוֺדִי ח Songs 5:6 and my beloved had turned away, passed on.

Hithpa`el Imperfect2feminine singular עַדמָֿתַי תִּתְחַמָּקִין הַבַּת הַשּׁוֺבֵבָה Jeremiah 31:22 turn hither and thither, see Gf VB.

Forms and Transliterations
חָמַ֣ק חמק תִּתְחַמָּקִ֔ין תתחמקין chaMak ḥā·maq ḥāmaq tiṯ·ḥam·mā·qîn titchammaKin tiṯḥammāqîn
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Englishman's Concordance
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KJV: but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: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

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 2559
2 Occurrences


ḥā·maq — 1 Occ.
tiṯ·ḥam·mā·qîn — 1 Occ.

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