מְגַמָּה
mᵉgammâh · H4041 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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totality
Exact meaning unknown; possibly: state indicating that all members of a group are involved in a similar activity
ExamplesHabakkuk 1:9 “All of them come for violence. Their horde of faces moves forward. They gather captives like sand.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Groups001001003004
- מְגַמָּה describes a company or troop moving together, as reflected in its gloss 'sup up' used in the context of a rushing multitude (1 Kings 20:33's Ben-hadad's officials "took it as a sign"), tying the word to a collective body acting as one.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4041. megammah [מְגַמָּה] noun feminine Hab 1:9 (of the Chaldaeans) קָדִ֑ימָה מְּנֵיהֶם…
[מְגַמָּה] noun feminine Hab 1:9 (of the Chaldaeans) קָדִ֑ימָה מְּנֵיהֶם מְגַמַּת, of uncertain meaning: Ges the assembling of their faces is (directed) forwards; Ew De Ke eagerness, comparing (questionably) גָּמָא swallow Job 39:4, and (Frey) seek (whence St proposes מְגֻמַת). Text probably erroneous.
גמץ (√ of following, Aramaic גְּמַץ dig (perhaps denominative)).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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