הָמָה hâmâh — to make a loud sound (like English 'hum')
Translated in the KJV as clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud, mourn, be moved, make a noise, rage, roar, sound, be troubled.
a primitive root (compare H1949); to make a loud sound (like English 'hum'); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor.
hâmâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 14Participle (active) 8Perfect (qatal) 4Wayyiqtol 3Cohortative 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive construct 1
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?
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›