Roaring
נַ֫הַםStrong’s H5099naham (na-ham)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naham is the Hebrew word usually translated “roaring”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.”
Meaning
- Growling, roaringof lion · of king's wrath (fig.)
How it's translated
- a roaring 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נַ֫הַם naham · roaring
1) growling, roaring 1a) of lion 1b) of king's wrath (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “roaring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROARING, participle present
tense Crying like a bull or lion; uttering a deep loud sound.
All definitions and other forms of “roaring”
ROARING, noun
The cry of a lion or other beast; outcry of distress,; loud continued sound of the billows of the sea or of a tempest.
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.