4041. megammah
Strong's Lexicon
megammah: Desire, longing, purpose

Original Word: מֶגַמָּה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: megammah
Pronunciation: meh-gah-mah
Phonetic Spelling: (meg-am-maw')
Definition: Desire, longing, purpose
Meaning: accumulation, impulse, direction

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as gam
Definition
perhaps assembling
NASB Translation
horde (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[מְגַמָּה] noun feminine Habakkuk 1:9 (of the Chaldaeans) מְגַמַּת מְּנֵיהֶם קָדִ֑ימָה, 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)).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
sup up

From the same as gam; properly, accumulation, i.e. Impulse or direction -- sup up.

see HEBREW gam

Forms and Transliterations
מְגַמַּ֥ת מגמת mə·ḡam·maṯ megamMat məḡammaṯ
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Englishman's Concordance
Habakkuk 1:9
HEB: לְחָמָ֣ס יָב֔וֹא מְגַמַּ֥ת פְּנֵיהֶ֖ם קָדִ֑ימָה
NAS: for violence. Their horde of faces
KJV: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind,
INT: violence come their horde of faces forward

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 4041
1 Occurrence


mə·ḡam·maṯ — 1 Occ.

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