Lexical Summary atham: perhaps to burn Original Word: עָתַםTransliteration: atham Phonetic Spelling: (aw-tham) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: perhaps to burn Meaning: to glow, be desolated Strong's Concordance be darkened A primitive root; probably to glow, i.e. (figuratively) be desolated -- be darkened. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6272. atham [עָתַם] verb dubious; Niph`al Perfect3masculine singular אָ֑רֶץ נֶעְתַּם Isaiah 9:18 ( is be clogged in speech, suffocating heat, burned by heat; hence Thes scorched, but derived sense dubious; see RSJPhil. xiii. 61 f.); — read perhaps נִצְּתָה (√ יָצַת) is burned up, compare RSl.c., Krochm Kit CheHpt. |