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).
Every verse where H5980 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 4 distinct verses. 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.
1 Chronicles
- 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.
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.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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.
