halam · strike, hammer

What it means

halam (הָלַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “strike, hammer”.

Hammer, strike hard, trample. Used of the blow of a hammer and of horses' hoofs on the ground.

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. Strike hard, hammer; beat down.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hammered ×2
• have struck down ×1
• him who strikes ×1
• strike me ×1
• they beat me ×1
• they strike down ×1
• this way and that ×1
• those struck down ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3

• Judges 5:22

  Then the hoofs of the horses hammered from the galloping, the galloping of his steeds.

• Judges 5:26

  Her hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the mallet of the workmen; she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

• 1 Samuel 14:16

  The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and look, the multitude was melting away and going this way and that.

• Psalms 74:6

  And now its carvings, all together, with ax and hammers they strike down.

• Psalms 141:5

  Let the righteous strike me— it is loyal love; and let him rebuke me— it is oil for the head; let my head not refuse it, for still is my prayer against their evils.

• Proverbs 23:35

  “They struck me, I was not hurt; they beat me, I did not feel it. When will I wake up? I will seek it yet again.”

• Isaiah 16:8

  For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its choice branches; as far as Jazer they reached, they wandered into the wilderness; its shoots spread out, they crossed over the sea.

• Isaiah 28:1

  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness of those struck down by wine!

• Isaiah 41:7

  And the craftsman encourages the goldsmith, he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and he fastens it with nails, so that it will not totter.