1. הָמַם
make a noise, move noisily, confuse, discomfit
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַיָּ֕הָם
hamam · vb
make a noise, move noisily, confuse, discomfit
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 16 · 0.52/10k
Senses
2. הָמַם
properly, to put in commotion; by implication, to disturb, drive, destroy
Attestations
- וַ/יָּ֕הָם Exodus 14:24 (BHS)
- וְ/הַמֹּתִי֙ Exodus 23:27 (BHS)
- לְ/הֻמָּ֖/ם Deuteronomy 2:15 (BHS)
- וְ/הָמָ/ם֙ Deuteronomy 7:23 (BHS)
- וַ/יְהֻמֵּ֤/ם Joshua 10:10 (BHS)
- וַ/יָּ֣הָם Judges 4:15 (BHS)
6 of 16 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.