הָמוֹן
hâmôwn · haw-mone'
a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth
Lexicon
Derivation: or הָמֹן; (Ezekiel 5:7), from H1993 (הָמָה);
a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth
- a noise, tumult, crowd
- also, disquietude, wealth
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult.
Letters
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to reveal, behold › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to fasten and establish › the seed, life continuing
To reveal, behold of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to fasten and establish of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of הָמוֹן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
83 occurrences · 83 OT · 0 NT · 43 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- multitude8 · 16%
- the multitude4 · 8%
- of a multitude3 · 6%
- and all his multitude3 · 6%
- and the multitude3 · 6%
- of many2 · 4%
- multitudes2 · 4%
- and their multitude2 · 4%
- her multitude2 · 4%
- a multitude2 · 4%
- is upon all the multitude2 · 4%
- there is a multitude2 · 4%
- and all her multitude2 · 4%
- many1 · 2%
- all this store1 · 2%
- of this tumult1 · 2%
- in it: behold, i say, they are even as all the multitude1 · 2%
- in the city,(behold, they are as all the multitude1 · 2%
- of abundance1 · 2%
- tumult1 · 2%
- even among the whole multitude1 · 2%
- of the multitude1 · 2%
- that the noise1 · 2%
- and, behold, the multitude1 · 2%
- and his multitude1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.