עָמַם
amam · dim, darken, hide
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6004 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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amam (עָמַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dim, darken, hide”.
"Amam": to darken, to dim; in Lamentations 4:1, gold that loses its shine. In Ezekiel 28:3 and 31:8, to be hidden, to be unable to match someone.
How to say it
a·mam
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To take away the shine, or to cover so that it is not seen.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- eclipse it ×1
- grows dark ×1
- hidden from you ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Lamentations 4:1
How the gold grows dark, the pure gold changes, the good gold! The sacred stones are poured out at the head of every street.
- Ezekiel 28:3
look, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;
- Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars did not eclipse it in the garden of Elohim; the cypresses did not resemble its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its foliage; no tree in the garden of Elohim resembled it in its beauty.