hama · roar, be in uproar

What it means

hama (הָמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “roar, be in uproar”.

Make a great noise: roar, rage, be in turmoil. Said of the sea, of a crowd or of a stirred-up city; also of the heart that is moved.

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. To make a great din, like the sea or a crowd.
2. To be restless inside, groan.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• roar ×8
• moan ×3
• noisy ×3
• agitated ×2
• are you agitated ×2
• moans ×2
• roars ×2
• they howl ×2
• We growl ×1
• are stirred ×1
• others ×8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×11
• Proverbs×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×9
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• 1 Kings 1:41

  And Adonijah heard it, and all the guests who were with him, just as they finished eating. And Joab heard the sound of the horn and said, “Why is there the sound of the city in an uproar?”

• Psalms 39:6

  Only as an image does a man walk about; only for vapor are they agitated; he heaps up and does not know who will gather it.

• Psalms 42:5

  Why are you cast down, my soul, and agitated within me? Await Elohim, for I will yet give him thanks, the salvations of his face.

• Psalms 42:11

  Why are you cast down, my soul, and why are you agitated within me? Await Elohim, for I will yet give him thanks, the salvations of my face and my Elohim.

• Psalms 43:5

  Why are you cast down, my soul, and why are you agitated within me? Await Elohim, for I will yet give him thanks, the salvations of my face and my Elohim.

• Psalms 46:3

  its waters roar, foam; the mountains tremble at its pride. Selah.

• Psalms 46:6

  Nations roared, kingdoms were moved; he gave his voice, the earth melts.

• Psalms 55:17

  Evening and morning and noon I will complain and moan, and he will hear my voice.

• Psalms 59:6

  They return at evening, they howl like the dog, and go around the city.

• Psalms 59:14

  And they return at evening, they howl like the dog, and go around the city.

• Psalms 77:3

  I remember Elohim and moan; I complain, and my spirit grows faint. Selah.

• Psalms 83:2

  For look, your enemies roar, and those who hate you have lifted their head.

• Proverbs 1:21

  At the head of the noisy streets she calls out; at the openings of the gates, in the city, she speaks her sayings:

• Proverbs 7:11

  She is noisy and stubborn; in her house her feet do not stay;

• Proverbs 9:13

  The senseless woman is noisy; she is simpleness, and does not know anything.

• Proverbs 20:1

  A scoffer is wine, a brawler intoxicating drink, and anyone who strays by it is not wise.

• Song of Songs 5:4

  My beloved put his hand through the hole, and my insides were stirred for him.

• Isaiah 16:11

  Therefore my insides for Moab like a lyre moan, and my inmost being for Kir-heres.

• Isaiah 17:12

  Woe! The tumult of many peoples, like the roaring of the seas they roar; and the uproar of the nations, like the uproar of mighty waters they resound.

• Isaiah 22:2

  full of shouting, a tumultuous city, an exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

• Isaiah 51:15

  And I am YHWH your Elohim, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar; YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Isaiah 59:11

  We growl like bears, all of us, and like doves we keep moaning; we wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

• Jeremiah 4:19

  My insides, my insides! I writhe in pain! The walls of my heart! My heart is pounding within me; I cannot keep silent, for you have heard, my soul, the sound of the horn, the battle cry of war.

• Jeremiah 5:22

  Do you not fear me? declares YHWH. Do you not tremble before me, who placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, an eternal decree, and it cannot pass beyond it? And they toss, but they cannot prevail; and its waves roar, but they cannot pass beyond it.

• Jeremiah 6:23

  Bow and javelin they grasp; it is cruel, and they do not show compassion. Their voice roars like the sea, and on horses they ride, set in array like a man for war against you, daughter of Zion.”

• Jeremiah 31:20

  Is Ephraim a dear son to me, or a child of delight? For as often as I speak of him, I still remember him; therefore my inward parts are stirred for him; I will surely have compassion on him, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 31:35

  Thus says YHWH, who gives the sun for light by day, the statutes of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; YHWH Tsevaot is his name:

• Jeremiah 48:36

  Therefore my heart moans for Moab like flutes, and my heart for the men of Kir-heres moans like flutes; therefore the surplus he had made has perished.

• Jeremiah 50:42

  Bow and javelin they grasp; they are cruel, and they do not show compassion. Their voice roars like the sea, and on horses they ride, set in array like a man for war against you, daughter of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 51:55

  For YHWH is devastating Babylon, and he will destroy from her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the tumult of their voice is raised.

• Ezekiel 7:16

  And those of them who escape will escape, and they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each for his iniquity.

• Zechariah 9:15

  YHWH Tsevaot will shield them, and they will devour and tread down the stones of the sling; and they will drink, roar as with wine, and be filled like the bowl, like the corners of the altar.

And 2 more times.