Hebrew

Utterance

נְאֻםStrong’s H5002

neum (ne-um)

Appears in 358 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Neum is the Hebrew word usually translated “utterance of” and “utterance”. It appears in 358 verses of the Old Testament.

“Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.”

Zechariah 1:3 KJV

Meaning

(Qal) utterance, declaration (of prophet)utterance, declaration, revelation (of prophet in ecstatic state) · utterance, declaration (elsewhere always preceding divine name)

How it's translated

utterance of 372
and utterance of 3
an utterance 1

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

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 170
Ezekiel 85
Isaiah 23
Amos 21
Zechariah 19
Haggai 8

21 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 358 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 22:16
Numbers 5: 14:28 24:3 24:4 24:15 24:16
1 Samuel 1: 2:30
2 Samuel 1: 23:1
2 Kings 3: 9:26 19:33 22:19
2 Chronicles 1: 34:27
Psalms 2: 36:1 110:1
Proverbs 1: 30:1
Isaiah 23: 1:24 3:15 14:22 14:23 17:3 17:6 19:4 22:25 30:1 31:9 37:34 41:14 43:10 43:12 49:18 52:5 54:17 55:8 56:8 59:20 66:2 66:17 66:22
Jeremiah 170: 1:8 1:15 1:19 2:3 2:9 2:12 2:19 2:22 2:29 3:1 3:10 3:12 3:13 3:14 3:16 3:20 4:1 4:9 4:17 5:9 5:11 5:15 5:18 5:22 5:29 6:12 7:11 7:13 7:19 7:30 7:32 8:1 8:3 8:13 8:17 9:3 9:6 9:9 9:22 9:24 9:25 12:17 13:11 13:14 13:25 15:3 15:6 15:9 15:20 16:5 16:11 16:14 16:16 17:24 18:6 19:6 19:12 21:7 21:10 21:13 21:14 22:5 22:16 22:24 23:1 23:2 23:4 23:5 23:7 23:11 23:12 23:23 23:24 23:28 23:29 23:30 23:31 23:32 23:33 25:7 25:9 25:12 25:29 25:31 27:8 27:11 27:15 27:22 28:4 29:9 29:11 29:14 29:19 29:23 29:32 30:3 30:8 30:10 30:11 30:17 30:21 31:1 31:14 31:16 31:17 31:20 31:27 31:28 31:31 31:32 31:33 31:34 31:36 31:37 31:38 32:5 32:30 32:44 33:14 34:5 34:17 34:22 35:13 39:17 39:18 42:11 44:29 45:5 46:5 46:18 46:23 46:26 46:28 48:12 48:15 48:25 48:30 48:35 48:38 48:43 48:44 48:47 49:2 49:5 49:6 49:13 49:16 49:26 49:30 49:31 49:32 49:37 49:38 49:39 50:4 50:10 50:20 50:21 50:30 50:31 50:35 50:40 51:24 51:25 51:26 51:39 51:48 51:52 51:53 51:57
Ezekiel 85: 5:11 11:8 11:21 12:25 12:28 13:6 13:7 13:8 13:16 14:11 14:14 14:16 14:18 14:20 14:23 15:8 16:8 16:14 16:19 16:23 16:30 16:43 16:48 16:58 16:63 17:16 18:3 18:9 18:23 18:30 18:32 20:3 20:31 20:33 20:36 20:40 20:44 21:7 21:13 22:12 22:31 23:34 24:14 25:14 26:5 26:14 26:21 28:10 29:20 30:6 31:18 32:8 32:14 32:16 32:31 32:32 33:11 34:8 34:15 34:30 34:31 35:6 35:11 36:14 36:15 36:23 36:32 37:14 38:18 38:21 39:5 39:8 39:10 39:13 39:20 39:29 43:19 43:27 44:12 44:15 44:27 45:9 45:15 47:23 48:29
Hosea 4: 2:13 2:16 2:21 11:11
Joel 1: 2:12
Amos 21: 2:11 2:16 3:10 3:13 3:15 4:3 4:5 4:6 4:8 4:9 4:10 4:11 6:8 6:14 8:3 8:9 8:11 9:7 9:8 9:12 9:13
Obadiah 2: 1:4 1:8
Micah 2: 4:6 5:10
Nahum 2: 2:13 3:5
Zephaniah 5: 1:2 1:3 1:10 2:9 3:8
Haggai 8: 1:9 1:13 2:4 2:8 2:9 2:14 2:17 2:23
Zechariah 19: 1:3 1:4 1:16 2:5 2:6 2:10 3:9 3:10 5:4 8:6 8:11 8:17 10:12 11:6 12:1 12:4 13:2 13:7 13:8
Malachi 1: 1:2

Hebrew dictionary

נְאֻם neum · utterance

1) (Qal) utterance, declaration (of prophet) 1a) utterance, declaration, revelation (of prophet in ecstatic state) 1b) utterance, declaration (elsewhere always preceding divine name)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

UT'TERANCE, noun

The act of uttering words; pronunciation; manner of speaking; as a good or bad utterance“They began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance” Acts 2:4
Emission from the mouth; vocal expression; as the utterance of sounds.
Extremity; furthest part. [Not in use.]

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

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.