hum · be in an uproar

What it means

hum (הוּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be in an uproar”.

Be stirred up, filled with noise and movement; said of a city or a camp that is stirred by news.

How to say it

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

1. Be filled with commotion and noise: a city or a camp.
2. Be unsettled inside.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• uproar ×3
• I am distraught ×1
• was stirred ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Micah×1

• Ruth 1:19

  So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they came to Bethlehem, that the whole city was stirred because of them, and they said, “Is this Naomi?”

• 1 Samuel 4:5

  And it happened, as the ark of the covenant of YHWH came into the camp, that all Israel shouted a great shout, and the earth was in an uproar.

• 1 Kings 1:45

  And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound that you heard.

• Psalms 55:2

  Attend to me and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I am distraught,

• Micah 2:12

  I will surely gather Jacob, all of you; I will surely assemble the remnant of Israel; together I will set them like sheep in the fold, like a flock in the midst of its pasture; they will make an uproar because of human beings.