hamah (to roar) · Rightly

Meaning

To murmur, growl, roar, cry aloud, mourn, rage, sound, make noise, tumult, be clamorous, be disquieted, be loud, be moved, be troubled, be in an uproar(Qal)

How it's translated

are you in turmoil 2
they growl 2
noisy 2
boisterous 2
and they roared 2
it roars 2
it will groan 2
in an uproar 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Psalms 11
Jeremiah 8
Isaiah 5
Proverbs 4
1 Kings 1
Song of Solomon 1

8 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

1 Kings 1:41And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalms 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 46:3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

All 32 verses, by book

1 Kings 1: 1:41
Psalms 11: 39:6 42:5 42:11 43:5 46:3 46:6 55:17 59:6 59:14 77:3 83:2
Proverbs 4: 1:21 7:11 9:13 20:1
Song of Solomon 1: 5:4
Isaiah 5: 16:11 17:12 22:2 51:15 59:11
Jeremiah 8: 4:19 5:22 6:23 31:20 31:35 48:36 50:42 51:55
Ezekiel 1: 7:16
Zechariah 1: 9:15

Hebrew dictionary

הָמָה hamah · to roar

1) to murmur, growl, roar, cry aloud, mourn, rage, sound, make noise, tumult, be clamorous, be disquieted, be loud, be moved, be troubled, be in an uproar 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to growl 1a2) to murmur (fig. of a soul in prayer) 1a3) to roar 1a4) to be in a stir, be in a commotion 1a5) to be boisterous, be turbulent

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “roar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

ROAR, verb intransitive

To cry with a full, loud, continued sound; to bellow, as a beast; as a roaring bull; a roaring lion.
To cry aloud, as in distress.
To cry aloud; to bawl; as a child.
To cause a loud continued sound.

All definitions and other forms of “roar”

To make a loud noise.

ROAR, noun

A full loud sound of some continuance; the cry of a beast; as the roar of a lion or bull.
The loud cry of a child or person in distress.
Clamor; outcry of joy or mirth; as a roar of laughter. he set the company in a roar
The loud continued sound of the sea in a storm, or the howling of a tempest.
Any loud sound of some continuance; as the roar of cannon.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.