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# נְהָמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5100

**growling** — used 2 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

growling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5100/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְהָמָה: n.f. growling, groaning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5100/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. growling, groaning;—only cstr. נָֽהֲמַת: Is 5:30 of sea, in sim. of growling of Assyrian lion. fig. groaning ψ 38:9 of heart (שָׁאַ֫גְתִּי מִנ׳).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: growling (1); the groaning (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 38:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.9/#tree)

נְפוּג֣וֹתִי וְנִדְכֵּ֣יתִי עַד־מְאֹ֑ד שָׁ֝אַ֗גְתִּי מִֽנַּהֲמַ֥ת לִבִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* I.am.numb and I.am.crushed up.to muchness I.roar from the.groaning my.heart my

*JPS 1917:* I am benumbed and sore crushed; I groan by reason of the moaning of my heart.

[Isaiah 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.30/#tree)

וְיִנְהֹ֥ם עָלָ֛יו בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא כְּנַהֲמַת־יָ֑ם וְנִבַּ֤ט לָאָ֙רֶץ֙ וְהִנֵּה־חֹ֔שֶׁךְ צַ֣ר וָא֔וֹר חָשַׁ֖ךְ בַּעֲרִיפֶֽיהָ׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.will.growl over it in the day (the) that like.\[the\] growling of.\[the\].sea and someone.will.look to the land and there! darkness distress and light it.has.become.dark by clouds its

*JPS 1917:* And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea; and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and distress, and the light is darkened in the skies thereof.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5100/): 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).