Strong's Hebrew · H1949

H1949 hûwm

הוּם

hoom

to make noise

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hûwm appears 5 times in Scripture, in Ruth, 1 Samuel, 1 Kings, Psalms and Micah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to make an uproar, or agitate greatly

In the King James Version

destroy, move, make a noise, put, ring again.

Derivation

a primitive root (compare H2000 (הָמַם));

Appears 5 times in Scripture

Psalms 55:2

“Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught”

Micah 2:12

“I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.”

Ruth 1:19

“So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?””

1 Kings 1:45

“Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there with rejoicing that rings out in the city. That is the noise you hear.”

1 Samuel 4:5

“When the ark of the covenant of the LORD entered the camp, all the Israelites raised such a great shout that the ground shook.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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