Chimham
kim.ham identifies Chimham in the king’s crossing scene and in the place-name Geruth Chimham.
The supplied verses use kim.ham as an identifying name: in the king’s crossing scene it marks Chimham, and in Jeremiah it occurs in the locality called Geruth Chimham.
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Name in a crossing scene and a locality · dominant
In 2 Samuel 19:38, where the form is tagged Noun · Proper, the APB renders the king’s clause, “Chimham shall cross over with me.” The supplied forms also occur in 2 Samuel 19:39 and 2 Samuel 19:41 within the Jordan-crossing episode, while Jeremiah 41:17 renders the destination as “Geruth Chimham beside Bethlehem”; the latter verse’s supplied morphology is tagged Preposition, so its individual contribution is not fully isolated by the translation.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly presents “Chimham” in 2 Samuel 19:38 and “Geruth Chimham” in Jeremiah 41:17. In 2 Samuel 19:39 and 2 Samuel 19:41, it renders the surrounding crossing narrative without an identifiable English correspondence for the supplied form.