עֻמָּה
ʻummâh · oom-maw'
conjunction, i.e. society; mostly adverb or preposition (with prepositional prefix), near, beside, along with
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6004 (עָמַם);
conjunction, i.e. society; mostly adverb or preposition (with prepositional prefix), near, beside, along with
- conjunction, i.e. society
- mostly adverb or preposition (with prepositional prefix), near, beside, along with
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (over) against, at, beside, hard by, in points.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
To see and know of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֻמָּה 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
32 occurrences · 32 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- over against15 · 47%
- against4 · 13%
- thereof, over against1 · 3%
- answerable1 · 3%
- of it, over against1 · 3%
- hard1 · 3%
- at1 · 3%
- one against1 · 3%
- that in all points1 · 3%
- the one over against1 · 3%
- also were beside1 · 3%
- beside1 · 3%
- shall be over against1 · 3%
- and over against1 · 3%
- and it shall be over against1 · 3%
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.