uma · alongside, close to

What it means

uma (עֻמָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “alongside, close to”.

Beside, along with, close to.

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. Beside, opposite; just as.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• corresponding to ×8
• alongside them ×5
• close to ×5
• just as ×3
• against ×2
• alongside ×2
• opposite him ×2
• Close ×1
• alike ×1
• exactly as ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Leviticus×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×5
• Nehemiah×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Ezekiel×15

• Exodus 25:27

  Close to the rim the rings shall be, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

• Exodus 28:27

  You shall make two rings of gold and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, low down, on its front, close to its seam, above the woven band of the ephod.

• Exodus 37:14

  Close to the rim were the rings, holders for the poles to carry the table.

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 39:20

  And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod below, at its front, close to its joining, above the woven band of the ephod.

• Leviticus 3:9

  From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH its fat: the whole fat tail, which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

• 2 Samuel 16:13

  David and his men went along the road, and Shimei was going along the side of the hill opposite him, cursing as he went, and he threw stones opposite him and threw dust.

• 1 Kings 7:20

  And the capitals on the two pillars were also above, close to the belly that was beside the net; and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows all around on the second capital.

• 1 Chronicles 24:31

  They also cast lots, just as their brothers the sons of Aaron, before David the king and Zadok and Ahimelech and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites: the head of a fathers’ house just as his younger brother.

• 1 Chronicles 25:8

  They cast lots for their charge, alike, the small as the great, the skilled with the pupil.

• 1 Chronicles 26:12

  These divisions of the gatekeepers, by the heads of the men, had charges just as their brothers, to minister in the house of YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 26:16

  For Shuppim and for Hosah, the west, by the gate of Shallecheth on the causeway that goes up, guard alongside guard.

• Nehemiah 12:24

  And the heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of Elohim, watch opposite watch.

• Ecclesiastes 5:16

  And this also is a sickly evil: that exactly as he came, so he will go; and what profit is there for him that he toils for the wind?

• Ecclesiastes 7:14

  In the day of good, be in the good, and in the day of evil, see: also this one alongside that one Elohim has made, so that the human being may not find anything after him.

• Ezekiel 1:20

  Wherever the spirit would go, they went, there the spirit was to go; and the wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

• Ezekiel 1:21

  When they went, they went; and when they stood still, they stood still; and when they rose from the earth, the wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

• Ezekiel 3:8

  Look, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

• Ezekiel 3:13

  and the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, and the sound of a great quaking.

• Ezekiel 10:19

  And the cherubim lifted their wings and rose from the earth before my eyes as they went out, and the wheels alongside them; and it stood at the entrance of the eastern gate of the house of YHWH, and the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.

• Ezekiel 11:22

  And the cherubim lifted their wings, and the wheels alongside them, and the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.

• Ezekiel 40:18

  And the pavement was beside the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, the lower pavement.

• Ezekiel 42:7

  And the fence that was outside, parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, in front of the chambers, its length fifty cubits.

• Ezekiel 45:6

  And as the possession of the city you shall give five thousand in width and twenty-five thousand in length, corresponding to the holy contribution; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 45:7

  And to the chief shall belong land on one side and on the other of the holy contribution and of the possession of the city, facing the holy contribution and facing the possession of the city, from the side of the sea toward the sea and from the side of the east toward the east, and its length corresponding to one of the portions, from the border of the sea to the border of the east.

• Ezekiel 48:13

  And the Levites shall have, corresponding to the border of the priests, twenty-five thousand in length and ten thousand in width; the whole length twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.

• Ezekiel 48:18

  And what remains in length corresponding to the holy contribution shall be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand toward the sea; it shall be corresponding to the holy contribution, and its produce shall be for bread for those who work the city.

• Ezekiel 48:21

  And what remains shall be for the chief, on one side and on the other of the holy contribution and of the possession of the city, in front of the twenty-five thousand of the contribution as far as the border of the east, and toward the sea, in front of the twenty-five thousand as far as the border of the sea; corresponding to the portions, it shall be for the chief; and the holy contribution and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

And 4 more times.