אֻמַּה
ʼummah · H523 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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tribe, people
A large body of people united by common descent
ExamplesGenesis 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve princes according to their tribes.
Psalm 44:14 You make us a proverb among the nations, A laughingstock among the peoples.
Psalm 57:9 I will praise You, Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to You among the nations.
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tribal chief
Literally, "head of (the) tribes": leader of a large body of people united by common descent
ExamplesNumbers 25:15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was head of the people of a father’s household in Midian.
How it’s used In 4 roles
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
- הֶםtheir 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἔθνος éthnos · G1484 · nation, people, heathen
- Greek ἔθνος translates Hebrew אֻמַּה in LXX contexts where both denote a collective people-group or nation, with ἔθνος carrying additional Hellenistic connotations of ethnic/tribal identity that overlap with אֻמַּה's core sense of 'people' or 'nation.'
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Groups001001003004
- אֻמַּה names a tribe or people group, as the twelve tribal divisions descended from Ishmael, each with its own prince "according to their tribes" (Genesis 25:16).
- Leaders001001003005
- The word can be tied to the leadership of such a group, as the princes reckoned according to their tribal divisions (Genesis 25:16).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H523. ummah [אֻמָּה] noun feminine tribe, people (Arabic ; Assyrian ummatu compare…
[אֻמָּה] noun feminine tribe, people (Arabic ; Assyrian ummatu compare JenKosmol. 336, Aramaic , אוּמָּא) only plural אֻמּוֺת Num 25:15; אֻמִּים Psa 117:1; suffix אֻמֹּתָם Gen 25:16; — of tribes of Ishmaelites Gen 25:16; of Midian (|| בֵּיתאָֿב) Num 25:15; || גּוֺיִם Psa 117:1.
אֻמָּה noun feminine nation (Biblical Hebrew id., late); — absolute ׳א Dan 3:29; plural emphatic אֻמַּיָא Dan 3:4, Dan 3:7; Daniel 3:31; Dan 5:19; Dan 6:26; Dan 7:14; Ezr 4:10.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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