to warm
cha.mam describes becoming warm or making a person, body, or object warm, and can portray intense heat.
The attested uses most often concern imparting or obtaining bodily warmth: a king, a youth, people lying together, a person beside a fire, and eggs are described in contexts of warmth. A smaller group portrays heat itself, including the sun's heat and people described as hot like an oven; the APB wording in Psalm 39:4 does not isolate the term's contribution.
Senses in use
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Making or keeping someone or something warm · dominant
In 1 Kings 1:2 the Qal sequential perfect occurs in the request that the king be warm while a young woman lies in his bosom. In 2 Kings 4:34 the Qal sequential imperfect follows close bodily contact, and the APB renders that the youth's flesh was warmed. Ecclesiastes 4:11 places the form in the question of how a person alone can keep warm, while Isaiah 44:15 and Isaiah 47:14 place warmth beside fire or a coal; Job 39:14 describes eggs warmed on the dust.
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Becoming hot or expressing heat · occasional
Exodus 16:21 uses a Qal perfect in the clause where the sun grew hot and the gathered material melted. Hosea 7:7 uses a Qal imperfect plural for people described as hot like an oven. Psalm 39:4 has a Qal perfect form, but its supplied APB rendering does not make the term's specific contribution clear.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “warm,” “warms himself,” or “keep warm,” and in Exodus 16:21 and Hosea 7:7 with “grew hot” and “hot like an oven.” These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions; Psalm 39:4 does not explicitly show a warming or heat expression in the supplied APB text.