- Original: חוּם - Transliteration: Chuwm - Phonetic: khoom - Definition: 1. dark colour, darkened, dark brown or black - Origin: from an unused root meaning to be warm - TWOT entry: 625a - Part(s) of speech: Adjective - Strong's: From an unused root meaning to be warm that is (by implication) sunburnt or swarthy (blackish): - brown. Total KJV Occurrences: 4 • brown, 4 Genesis 30:32; Genesis 30:33; Genesis 30:35; Genesis 30:40