To astounded
תָּמַהּStrong’s H8539tamah (ta-mah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “astonished”, “astounded” and “looked in astonishment”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.”
Meaning
- To be astounded, be stunned, be amazed, be dumbfounded(Qal) to be astounded · (Hithpael) to astonish yourself, be astounded, be astonished at one another
How it's translated
- be astonished 2
- and be astounded 2
- and they looked in astonishment 1
- and they may be astonished 1
- they were astonished 1
- they will look in astonishment 1
- they will be astounded 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 26:11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
- Psalms 48:5They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
- Isaiah 13:8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
- Isaiah 29:9Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
- Jeremiah 4:9And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
Hebrew dictionary
תָּמַהּ tamah · to astounded
1) to be astounded, be stunned, be amazed, be dumbfounded 1a) (Qal) to be astounded 1b)(Hithpael) to astonish yourself, be astounded, be astonished at one another
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “astonished” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ASTON'ISHED, participle passive
Amazed; confounded with fear, surprise, or admiration.
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.