hamam (to confuse)

Meaning

To move noisily, confuse, make a noise, discomfit, break, consume, crush, destroy, trouble, vex(Qal)

How it's translated

and he routed them 3
and he routed 2
and he confused 1
and i will confuse 1
to disturb them 1
and he will confuse them 1
he troubled them 1
to trouble them 1

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

Where it's used most

Exodus 2
Deuteronomy 2
Psalms 2
Joshua 1
Judges 1
1 Samuel 1

11 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
Deuteronomy 2:15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Deuteronomy 7:23But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
Joshua 10:10And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
Judges 4:15And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
1 Samuel 7:10And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.

All 14 verses, by book

Exodus 2: 14:24 23:27
Deuteronomy 2: 2:15 7:23
Joshua 1: 10:10
Judges 1: 4:15
1 Samuel 1: 7:10
2 Samuel 1: 22:15
2 Chronicles 1: 15:6
Esther 1: 9:24
Psalms 2: 18:14 144:6
Isaiah 1: 28:28
Jeremiah 1: 51:34

Hebrew dictionary

הָמַם hamam · to confuse

1) to move noisily, confuse, make a noise, discomfit, break, consume, crush, destroy, trouble, vex 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to move noisily 1a2) to confuse, discomfit, vex

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

CONFUSE, verb transitive

[Latin See Confound.]

To mix or blend things, so that they cannot be distinguished.“Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise” Isaiah 9:5
To disorder; as, a sudden alarm confused the troops; a careless bookkeeper has confused the accounts.
To perplex; to render indistinct; as, the clamor confused his ideas.
To throw the mind into disorder; to cast down or abash; to cause to blush; to agitate by surprise, or shame; to disconcert.

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