Strong's Hebrew · H2000
H2000 hâmam
הָמַם
haw-mam'
to confuse
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hâmam appears 14 times in Scripture, including Exodus 14:24 and Deuteronomy 2:15. 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
properly, to put in commotion; by implication, to disturb, drive, destroy
In the King James Version
break, consume, crush, destroy, discomfit, trouble, vex.
Derivation
Appears 14 times in Scripture
“Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.”
“But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.”
“As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was offering up the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.”
“And in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.”
“And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.”
“I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.”
“Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.”
“At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.”
“He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.”
“For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.”
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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).
