Definition

a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth

Etymology

or הָמֹן; (Ezekiel 5:7), from H1993 (הָמָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• abundance
• company
• many
• multitude
• multiply
• noise
• riches
• rumbling
• sounding
• store
• tumult

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

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