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# הוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1949

**murmur** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

murmur [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1949/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הוּם: vb. murmur, roar, discomfit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1949/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. murmur, roar, discomfit (Arabic هَامَ (med. ى) is rush about madly (lit., or in passion, love, &c.), fig. be distracted; on √ הִים v. Hi ψ 55:3 NöZMG 1883, 540)— Pf. 3 ms. sf. וְהָמָם consec. Dt 7:23 וְה׳ מְהוּמָה גְדֹלָה (י׳ subj.) and he shall discomfit them (with) a great discomfiture (according to Di וה׳ is from הָמַם, here pointed as ע״ו because of מְהוּמָה; but v. Köi 486 & reff.); here, according to Nöl.c., belongs Impf. 1 s. cohort. אָהִ֑ימָה (i.e. √ ע״י) ψ 55:3 am driven about (Hi De), or distracted. Impf. 3 fs. וַתֵּהֹם 1 S 4:5 + 2 times (on form cf. Ges§ 72 R. 5); be in a stir, of a city Ru 1:19 (sq. על over, on account of), 1 K 1:45; of ground re-echoing shout 1 S 4:5. Impf. 1 s. אָהִ֑ימָה ψ 55:3 shew disquietude (so most, cf. supr.); but Ol Che וְאֶהֱמָ֑יָה (77:4); LagProph. Chald. xlviii. 2, BN 27 אֶהֱמֶה (v 18); 3 fpl. תְּהִימֶנָה (? תֶּהֱמֶינָה) Mi 2:12 they (i.e. fold & pasture) shall murmur with men.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was stirred (3); I am distraught (1); he (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 55:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.3/#tree)

הַקְשִׁ֣יבָה לִּ֣י וַעֲנֵ֑נִי אָרִ֖יד בְּשִׂיחִ֣י וְאָהִֽימָה׃

*Word for word:* pay attention to me and answer me I.am.restless in complaint my and I.am.distraught

*JPS 1917:* Attend unto me, and hear me; I am distraught in my complaint, and will moan;

[Deuteronomy 7:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.23/#tree)

וּנְתָנָ֛ם יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לְפָנֶ֑יךָ וְהָמָם֙ מְהוּמָ֣ה גְדֹלָ֔ה עַ֖ד הִשָּׁמְדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he will.deliver.them.up Yahweh God your before you and he will.confuse.them confusion great until they are.destroyed

*JPS 1917:* But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1949.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1949/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).