הָמוֹן hamon

Hebrew word for “crowd” · Strong’s H1995 · used 83 times in 78 verses

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Meaning

1) murmur, roar, crowd, abundance, tumult, sound;

Senses in the lexicon

• crowd (82)
• be turbulent (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for hamon in context, with how often each is used:

• multitude 52
• tumult 14
• abundance 4
• noise 3
• wealth 3
• multitudes 3
• uproar 1
• more than the wealth 1
• din 1
• any of multitude 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 32 (9), 2 Chronicles 20 (4), Ezekiel 7 (4), Daniel 11 (4), Isaiah 29 (3), Ezekiel 30 (3), Genesis 17 (2), 1 Samuel 14 (2), 1 Kings 20 (2), Isaiah 5 (2)

Forms

• המון 35
• ההמון 16
• המונה 9
• המונו 6
• והמון 2
• בהמון 2
• המונים 2
• וההמון 1
• להמון 1
• מהמון 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with hamon more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רַב rav “many” 16
• קוֹל qol “voice” 12
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 11
• חָלָל chalal “slain” 7
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 9
• עָרֵל arel “uncircumcised” 5
• חִתִּית chittit “terror” 4
• יְהֹוִה yehovih “YHWH/God” 7
• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 8
• שָׁאוֹן shaon “roar” 4
• נָפַל naphal “to fall” 7
• אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 7

Key verses

The verses using hamon that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 20:28 — And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but…
• 2 Chronicles 14:11 — And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our…
• 2 Chronicles 20:12 — O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon…
• 2 Chronicles 32:7 — Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with…
• Psalms 42:4 — When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and…
• Ecclesiastes 5:10 — He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
• Isaiah 5:13 — Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
• Isaiah 60:5 — Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces…
• Isaiah 63:15 — Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of…
• Jeremiah 3:23 — Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
• Ezekiel 32:18 — Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with…
• Ezekiel 32:24 — There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.