Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #1949 - הוּם hum or him (to murmur)

Original Word:	הוּם
Transliteration:	hum or him
Definition:	to murmur, roar, defeat in battle
Part of Speech:	Verb
Phonetic Spelling:	(hoom)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

destroy, move, make a noise, put, ring again

A primitive root (compare hamam); to make an uproar, or agitate greatly -- destroy, move, make a noise, put, ring again.

see HEBREW hamam

Englishman's Concordance

1) to distract, ring again, make a (great) noise, murmur, roar, discomfit, be moved
1a) (Qal) to discomfit
1b) (Niphal) to be in a stir
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to murmur
1c2) to show disquietude
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root [compare H2000]
Same Word by TWOT Number: 486

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[הוּם, הִים] verbmurmur, roar, discomfit (Arabic

(medial

) is rush about madly (literally, or in passion, love, &c.), figurative be distracted; on √ הִים see Hi^{Ps 55:3} Nö^{ZMG 1883, 540}) —

QalPerfect3masculine singular suffix וְהָמָם consecutive Deuteronomy 7:23מְהוּמָה גְדֹלָה׳וְה (׳י subject) and he shall discomfit them (with) a great discomfiture (according to Di ׳וה is from הָמַם, here pointed as עו֞ because of מְהוּמָה; but see Kö^{i. 486 & references}); here, according to Nö^l.c., belongs Imperfect1singular cohortative אָהִ֫ימָה (i. e. √ עי֞) Psalm 55:3am driven about (Hi De), or distracted.

Niph`alImperfect3feminine singular וַתֵּהֹם1 Samuel 4:5 2t. (on form compare Ges^{§ 72} R 5); be in a stir, of a city Ruth 1:19 (followed by עלover, on account of, 1 Kings 1:45; of ground re-echoing shout 1 Samuel 4:5.

Hiph`ilImperfect1singular אָהִ֑ימָהPsalm 55:3shew disquietude (so most, compare above); but Ol Che וְאֶהֱמָ֑וָה ( Psalm 77:4); Lag^{Proph. Chald. xlviii. 2, BN 27}אֶהֱמֶה (Psalm 18); 3 feminine plural תְּהִימֶנָה (?תֶּהֱמֶינָה) Micah 2:12they (i.e. fold & pasture) shall murmur with men.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1949. הוּם (hum or him) — 5 Occurrences

Ruth 1:19
HEB:בֵּ֣ית לֶ֔חֶם וַתֵּהֹ֤ם כָּל־ הָעִיר֙
NAS: the city was stirred because
KJV: that all the city was moved about them, and they said,
INT: had come to Bethlehem was stirred all the city

1 Samuel 4:5
HEB:תְּרוּעָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַתֵּהֹ֖ם הָאָֽרֶץ׃
NAS: shout, so that the earth resounded.
KJV: shout, so that the earth rang again.
INT: shout A great resounded the earth

1 Kings 1:45
HEB:מִשָּׁם֙ שְׂמֵחִ֔ים וַתֵּהֹ֖ם הַקִּרְיָ֑ה ה֥וּא
NAS: so that the city is in an uproar. This
KJV: so that the city rang again. This [is] the noise
INT: there rejoicing an uproar the city This

Psalm 55:2
HEB:אָרִ֖יד בְּשִׂיחִ֣י וְאָהִֽימָה׃
NAS: in my complaint and am surely distracted,
KJV: in my complaint, and make a noise;
INT: I am restless my complaint surely

Micah 2:12
HEB:בְּת֣וֹךְ הַדָּֽבְר֔וֹ תְּהִימֶ֖נָה מֵאָדָֽם׃
NAS: of its pasture They will be noisy with men.
KJV: of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.
INT: the midst pasture will be noisy men

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