נָהַם
naham · groan, roar
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5098 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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naham (נָהַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “groan, roar”.
To groan, to roar; to complain with a deep sound, like that of a lion or of the sea.
How to say it
na·ham
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
- Make hoarse sounds, like a beast or one in pain.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- it growls ×1
- it will growl ×1
- roaring ×1
- you groan ×1
- you will roar ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 5:11
and you groan at your end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
- Proverbs 28:15
A roaring lion and a hungry bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
- Isaiah 5:29
Its roar is like a lioness; it roars like young lions; it growls and seizes prey and carries it off to safety, and there is no one to rescue.
- Isaiah 5:30
And it will growl over it on that day like the growling of the sea; and one will look to the land, and look, darkness and distress, and the light is darkened by its clouds.
- Ezekiel 24:23
and your headdresses will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet; you will not lament and you will not weep, but you will waste away in your iniquities, and you will roar each to his brother.