Definition

properly, to put in commotion; by implication, to disturb, drive, destroy

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H1949 (הוּם), H1993 (הָמָה));

Where the KJV renders it

• break
• consume
• crush
• destroy
• discomfit
• trouble
• vex

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.