Hamon הָמוֹן

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Hamon
הָמוֹן
Transliterationhamon
Strong's numberH1995 (H1995A, H1995B)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosscrowd
Occurrences83 in 78 verses
Most frequent inEzekiel (23)

Hamon (Hebrew הָמוֹן, Strong's H1995) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “crowd”. It occurs 83 times in 78 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H1995A: crowd

1) murmur, roar, crowd, abundance, tumult, sound
1a) sound, murmur, rush, roar
1b) tumult, confusion
1c) crowd, multitude
1d) great number, abundance
1e) abundance, wealth

H1995B: be turbulent

to rage, be turbulent

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVmultitude (59), tumult (4), noise (4), many (3), abundance (3), store (2), company (1), riches (1), sounding (1), rumbling (1), multiplied (1), multitudes (1), and 1 other rendering
BSBarmy (10), multitude (7), many (5), tumult (5), his multitude (4), her multitudes (4), commotion (3), multitudes (3), vast army (2), crowds (2), roar (2), its wealth (2), and 31 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Hamon, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Joel

Amos

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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