חָמַם châmam — to be hot (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as enflame self, get heat, be hot, (be, wax) warm (self, at).
a primitive root; to be hot (literally or figuratively).
châmam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive construct 1
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›