עֻמָּה
beside
‘beside’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 31 times (97%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 1 time (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 32 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5980 appears — 28 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 5 verses
- Exodus 25:27 לְ/עֻמַּת֙ prep + n c fs cs the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
- Exodus 28:27 לְ/עֻמַּ֖ת prep + n c fs cs You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it, close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
- Exodus 37:14 לְ/עֻמַּת֙ prep + n c fs cs The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
- Exodus 38:18 לְ/עֻמַּ֖ת prep + n c fs cs The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.
- Exodus 39:20 לְ/עֻמַּ֖ת prep + n c fs cs They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the front of it, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
Leviticus 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 24:31 לְ/עֻמַּ֣ת לְ/עֻמַּ֖ת prep + n c fs cs prep + n c fs cs These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
- 1 Chronicles 25:8 לְ/עֻמַּת֙ prep + n c fs cs They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
- 1 Chronicles 26:12 לְ/עֻמַּ֣ת prep + n c fs cs Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 26:16 לְ/עֻמַּ֥ת prep + n c fs cs To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 5:16 עֻמַּ֥ת n c fs cs This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 7:14 לְ/עֻמַּת prep + n c fs cs In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
Ezekiel 13 verses
- Ezekiel 1:20 לְ/עֻמָּתָ֔/ם prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
- Ezekiel 1:21 לְ/עֻמָּתָ֔/ם prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
- Ezekiel 3:8 לְ/עֻמַּ֣ת לְ/עֻמַּ֥ת prep + n c fs cs prep + n c fs cs Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
- Ezekiel 3:13 לְ/עֻמָּתָ֑/ם prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.
- Ezekiel 10:19 לְ/עֻמָּתָ֑/ם prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
- Ezekiel 11:22 לְ/עֻמָּתָ֑/ם prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
- Ezekiel 40:18 לְ/עֻמַּ֖ת prep + n c fs cs The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
- Ezekiel 42:7 לְ/עֻמַּ֣ת prep + n c fs cs The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.
- Ezekiel 45:6 לְ/עֻמַּ֖ת prep + n c fs cs You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 45:7 לְ/עֻמּוֹת֙ prep + n c fp cs [Whatever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.
- Ezekiel 48:13 לְ/עֻמַּת֙ prep + n c fs cs Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
- Ezekiel 48:18 לְ/עֻמַּ֣ת לְ/עֻמַּ֖ת prep + n c fs cs prep + n c fs cs The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and the increase of it shall be for food to those who labor in the city.
- Ezekiel 48:21 לְ/עֻמַּ֥ת prep + n c fs cs The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.
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.
The Hebrew noun עמה centers on the idea of “beside.” First canonically at Exodus 25:27, it enters the text early. It turns up in 28 verses across 8 books, a moderately common footprint. The word gravitates to Ezekiel (46%), then Exodus and 1 Chronicles. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5980 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 →
- 28
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 28 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,086
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,086 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 28 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 13 verses 46%
- Exodus 5 verses 18%
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses 14%
By section of the Old Testament
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 28 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 54%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 25%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 21%
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: Over against 17×, Against 4×, Shall be over against 2×
- American Standard Version: Answerable 6×, Beside 4×, Against 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: As 3×, Beside them 3×, Adjacent to 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beside 4×, Close to 4×, As 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5980 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5980 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5980 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5980 across 34 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- juxtaposition
- used only as a preposition
Word origin
[ עֻמָּה ] n.f. juxtaposition, but only in st. c. with force of prep. close by, side by side with, parallel to, agreeing with, corresponding to
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עמם (ʻâmam) (H6004) — to darken.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עֵמָּא
- = אוּמָא, leaven; trnsf. passion. Esth. R. introd.; Gen. R. s. 16, v. נָשַׁף.
עַמָּה
- , v. עַמָּא
עֵמָּה
- , v. עמָּא
עָמֶה
- , v. עמי
עמי
- (cmp. עמם) to be dark, dim, faint. Tanḥ. Yithro 13 קולו ע׳ וכהה the sound he produces becomes fainter and duller (the longer he blows); Yalk. Ex. 284 קולו ע׳, opp. מגביה.
- to become faint. Tanḥ. Haăz. 7 (play on ע̇מ̇יאל בן ג̇מ̇ל̇י, Num. XIII, 12) הע̇מ̇ה כחו … וג̇מ̇ל̇ וכ׳ his strength failed him, because he said …, and he brought it upon himself that he did not enter Palestine. e.g. Numbers 13:12
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H5980 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| לְ/עֻמַּ֖ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 28:27 | 7 |
| לְ/עֻמַּ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 3:8 | 5 |
| לְ/עֻמַּ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 3:8 | 5 |
| לְ/עֻמַּת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 25:27 | 4 |
| לְ/עֻמָּתָ֑/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 3:13 | 3 |
| לְ/עֻמָּתָ֔/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 1:20 | 2 |
| לְ/עֻמַּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ecclesiastes 7:14 | 1 |
| לְ/עֻמָּת֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Samuel 16:13 | 1 |
| לְ/עֻמָּת֗/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Samuel 16:13 | 1 |
| לְ/עֻמּוֹת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 45:7 | 1 |
| מִ/לְּ/עֻמַּ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 1 Kings 7:20 | 1 |
| עֻמַּ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ecclesiastes 5:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5980, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 26 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 28 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 25:27
- Leviticus 3:9
- 2 Samuel 16:13
- 1 Kings 7:20
- 1 Chronicles 24:31
- Ecclesiastes 5:16
- Ezekiel 1:20
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.
