Bible word study

Hamah (Strong’s H1993): Meaning in the Bible

Hamah (הָמָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H1993 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to make a loud sound (like English 'hum'); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor. In the King James Bible it is translated clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud.

• Original wordהָמָה
• Transliterationhâmâh
• Pronunciationhaw-maw'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH1993
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root (compare H1949);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Hamah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Hamah (H1993) stands behind 34 English renderings in 32 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (11), Jeremiah (9), Isaiah (6).

How the King James Bible renders Hamah, by count

• noise6 of 34 (18 percent)
• roar6 of 34 (18 percent)
• disquieted4 of 34 (12 percent)
• sound3 of 34 (9 percent)
• troubled2 of 34 (6 percent)
• aloud1 of 34 (3 percent)

Three places to read Hamah

• 1 Kings 1:41 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?
• Psalms 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Hamah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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