Hebrew verb · H6004
עָמַם
amamaw-mam'
to darken
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâmam
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6004is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6004
to associate; by implication, to overshadow (by huddling together)
The King James renders it: become dim, hide.
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
amam is rendered "to darken". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Lamentations 4:1How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
Lamentations 4:1יוּעַ֣ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it is dimmed1
- people hold dark from you1
- they eclipsed it1
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- יוּעַ֣ם1
- עֲמָמֻהוּ֮1
- עֲמָמֽוּךָ׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVHi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp3cp/Sp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3cp/Sp3ms
Lamentations
one use
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
- יוּעַ֣םyuamverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is dimmed
Ezekiel
two uses
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
- עֲמָמֽוּךָ׃ʾamamukhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: people hold dark from you
The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.
- עֲמָמֻהוּ֮ʾamamuhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they eclipsed it
The letters
Gematria 150· 710 mispar gadol
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.