Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4103
מְהוּמָה
mehumahmeh-hoo-maw'
tumult
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉhûwmâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4103is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4103
confusion or uproar
The King James renders it: destruction, discomfiture, trouble, tumult, vexation, vexed.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mehumah is rendered "tumult". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 7:23But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 7:23מְהוּמָ֣ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's twelve uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- confusion2
- disturbances2
- panic2
- a panic of1
- and turmoil1
- consternation1
- panic of1
- the confusion1
- the turmoil1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מְהוּמָ֖ה2
- מְהֽוּמַת־2
- הַמְּהוּמָה֙1
- הַמְּהוּמָֽה׃1
- וּמְה֥וּמָה1
- מְהוּמָ֣ה1
- מְהוּמָה֙1
- מְהוּמָ֨ה1
- מְהוּמֹ֣ת1
- מְהוּמֹ֤ת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular5HNcfsa
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
Deuteronomy
two uses
But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
- מְהוּמָ֣הmehumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: confusion
The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.
- הַמְּהוּמָה֙hamehumahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the confusion
1 Samuel
three uses
But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
- מְהוּמָה֙mehumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: panic
Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.
- מְהֽוּמַת־mehumat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: panic of
Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor.
- מְהוּמָ֖הmehumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: panic
2 Chronicles
one use
In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.
- מְהוּמֹ֣תmehumotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: disturbances
Proverbs
one use
Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.
- וּמְה֥וּמָהumehumahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and turmoil
Isaiah
one use
For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.
- מְהוּמָ֨הmehumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: consternation
Ezekiel
two uses
Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.
- מְהוּמָ֖הmehumahnoun · feminine singulartagged: confusion
Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.
- הַמְּהוּמָֽה׃hamehumahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the turmoil
Amos
one use
Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”
- מְהוּמֹ֤תmehumotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: disturbances
Zechariah
one use
On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.
- מְהֽוּמַת־mehumat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a panic of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.