הָמָה

ha.mah · to roar

Hebrew · Strong's H1993 · Verb · Sounds like: haw-maw' · 34 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root (compare הוּם); to make a loud sound (like English 'hum'); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor; clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud, mourn, be moved, make a noise, rage, roar, sound, be troubled, make in tumult, tumultuous, be in an uproar.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[הָמָה] vb. murmur, growl, roar, be boisterous
Qal
1. growl like a dog
2. murmur, fig. of soul in discouragement
3. roar, of waves
4. be in commotion, stir
5. be boisterous, turbulent

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Kings 1:41 הוֹמָֽה׃ ho.Mah · An -ing word: simple action

    And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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