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הֲמֻלָּה

roaring

H1999 Strong's Hebrew
hămullâh Transliteration
/ham-ool-law'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

המלה — transliterated hămullâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “roaring.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Jeremiah (50% of all occurrences). Debuting at Jeremiah 11:16, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
speech
Modern gloss
roaring
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H1999 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Jeremiah 11:16
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Jeremiah 11:16.
Ezekiel 1:24
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Ezekiel 1:24.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 2 · 100%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Speech 1×, Tumult 1×
  • American Standard Version: Tumult 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Tumult 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: A 1×, Rainstorm 1×, Storm 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H1999 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Speech” 1×
  • “Tumult” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H1999 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Tumult” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H1999 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Tumult” 1×

Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H1999 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “A” 1×
  • “Rainstorm” 1×
  • “Storm” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. rushing, roaring, rainstorm, roaring sound, rushing sound

Word origin

n.f. rain - storm (?), rushing or roaring sound (?): קוֹל הֲמוּלָּה גְדֹלָה Je 11:16 sound of a great storm, of wind fanning flames in tree (in fig. of Yahweh’s judgment on Judah); > AVRVDa tumult; קוֹל הֲמֻלָּה כְּקוֹל מַחֲנֶה Ez 1:24 of noise of wings of living creatures in Ezekiel’s vision (del. B Co cf. Hi).

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: pass. participle of an unused root

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 506a


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H1999 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
הֲמֻלָּ֖ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 1:24 1
הֲמוּלָּ֣ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Jeremiah 11:16 1

Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.

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