הָמַם hâmam — properly, to put in commotion
Translated in the KJV as break, consume, crush, destroy, discomfit, trouble, vex.
a primitive root (compare H1949, H1993); properly, to put in commotion; by implication, to disturb, drive, destroy.
hâmam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive construct 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 2
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
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 ›