mehuma · confusion, panic

What it means

mehuma (מְהוּמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “confusion, panic”.

Confusion: disorder and panic that make an army flee.

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. Great disorder and fear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• confusion ×8
• confusions were ×1
• panic ×1
• tumults ×1
• turmoil ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Deuteronomy 7:23

  But YHWH your Elohim will deliver them before you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 28:20

  YHWH will send on you the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke in all that you undertake with your hand that you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

• 1 Samuel 5:9

  And it happened, after they had moved it, that the hand of YHWH was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, from the small to the great, and tumors broke out on them.

• 1 Samuel 5:11

  So they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the Elohim of Israel, and let it return to its place, so that it does not put me to death, and my people.” For there was a deathly confusion throughout the city; the hand of Elohim was very heavy there.

• 1 Samuel 14:20

  Saul and all the people who were with him were summoned and came to the war, and look, the sword of each man was against his companion: a very great confusion.

• 2 Chronicles 15:5

  In those times there was no peace for the one going out or for the one coming in, for great confusions were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

• Proverbs 15:16

  Better is a little with the fear of YHWH than great treasure and turmoil with it.

• Isaiah 22:5

  For it is a day of panic and of trampling and of confusion from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot in the valley of Vision, a battering down of the wall and a cry to the mountain.

• Ezekiel 7:7

  The turn has come to you, inhabitant of the land; the time has come, the day is near; confusion, and no shout of joy on the mountains.

• Ezekiel 22:5

  Those near and those far from you will mock you, unclean of name, full of confusion.

• Amos 3:9

  Proclaim over the citadels in Ashdod, and over the citadels in the land of Egypt, and say, “Gather on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults in her midst, and the oppressed within her.”

• Zechariah 14:13

  And it will happen on that day that there will be a great confusion from YHWH among them; and they will seize each the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise against the hand of his neighbor.