Groaning
נְהָמָהStrong’s H5100nehamah (ne-ha-mah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nehamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from groaning of” and “like growling of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.”
Meaning
- Growling, groaning
How it's translated
- from groaning of 1
- like growling of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
נְהָמָה nehamah · groaning
growling, groaning
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “groaning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GROANING, participle present
tense Uttering a low mournful sound.
All definitions and other forms of “groaning”
GROANING, noun
The act of groaning; lamentation; complaint; a deep sound uttered in pain or sorrow.
- In hunting, the cry or noise of the buck.
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.