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# נָהַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5098

**growl** — used 5 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

growl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5098/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָהַם: vb. growl, groan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5098/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. growl, groan (NH id.; Arabic نَهَمَ Aramaic ܢܗܰܡ נְהַם);— Pf. וְנָהַמְתָּ֫ Pr 5:11; וּנְהַמְתֶּם Ez 24:23; Impf. יִנְהֹם Is 5:29, 30; Pt. נֹהֵם Pr 28:15;— growl, of a lion (viz. while it is devouring its prey: opp. שׁאג, of roar with which it springs upon it RSProph. 243) Pr 28:15, of Assyrian (under fig. of lion) Is 5:29; sq. עַל (over), v 30. groan, of sufferer Pr 5:11; Ez 24:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will growl (2); you will groan (2); roaring (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 28:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.15/#tree)

אֲרִי־נֹ֭הֵם וְדֹ֣ב שׁוֹקֵ֑ק מֹשֵׁ֥ל רָ֝שָׁ֗ע עַ֣ל עַם־דָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.lion roaring and a.bear rushing a.ruler wicked over a.people poor

*JPS 1917:* As a roaring lion, and a ravenous bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

[Proverbs 5:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.11/#tree)

וְנָהַמְתָּ֥ בְאַחֲרִיתֶ֑ךָ בִּכְל֥וֹת בְּ֝שָׂרְךָ֗ וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.groan at end your when wastes.away flesh your and body your

*JPS 1917:* And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5098.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5098/): 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).