הָמָן
Hâmân · haw-mawn'
Haman, a Persian vizier
Lexicon
Derivation: of foreign derivation;
Haman, a Persian vizier
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Haman.
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
- 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 › the seed, life continuing
To reveal, behold of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of הָמָן 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
54 occurrences · 54 OT · 0 NT · 23 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- haman11 · 21%
- and haman11 · 21%
- of haman7 · 13%
- now haman2 · 4%
- haman's2 · 4%
- and when haman1 · 2%
- then was haman1 · 2%
- wherefore haman1 · 2%
- it unto haman1 · 2%
- unto haman1 · 2%
- according to all that haman1 · 2%
- that haman1 · 2%
- cause haman1 · 2%
- but when haman1 · 2%
- for him, he1 · 2%
- nevertheless haman1 · 2%
- unto him, behold, haman1 · 2%
- so haman1 · 2%
- to haman1 · 2%
- but haman1 · 2%
- then haman1 · 2%
- which haman1 · 2%
- from haman1 · 2%
- by haman1 · 2%
- and let haman's1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
- Esther54
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.