Lexical Summary ummah: close by, side by side with Original Word: עֻמָּהTransliteration: ummah Phonetic Spelling: (oom-maw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: close by, side by side with Meaning: society, near, beside, along with Strong's Concordance over against, at, beside, hard by, in points From amam; conjunction, i.e. Society; mostly adverb or preposition (with prepositional prefix), near, beside, along with -- (over) against, at, beside, hard by, in points. see HEBREW amam Brown-Driver-Briggs H5980. ummah I. [עֻמָּה] noun feminine juxtaposition, but only in stative construct with force a preposition close by, side by side with, parallel to, agreeing with, corresponding to; — stative with עֻמַּת, except Ecclesiastes 5:15 always with לְ, suffix לְעֻמָּתוֺ, once plural construct לְעֻמּוֺת Ezekiel 45:7; — a. close by, side by side with: Exodus 25:27 (37:14), 28:27 (39:20), Leviticus 3:9 יְסִירֶנָּה הֻעָצֶה לְעֻמַּת shall take it away close by the backbone; especially of what is parallel, Ezekiel 42:7 the wall alongside of the chambers; of the contiguous portions in Ezekiel's division of the land, alongside of each other, 45:6-7, 48:13, 18 (twice in verse); 48:21; of movement in parallel lines, 2 Samuel 16:13 Shimei was going along לְעֻמָּתוֺ parallel with him, 16:13; Ezekiel 1:20 לְעֻמָּתָם יִנָָּֽשְׂאוּ וְהָאוֺפַנִּים, 1:21; 3:13; 10:19; 11:22; 3:8 מְּנֵיהֶם לְעֻמַּת חֲזָקִים פָנֶיךָ נָתַתִּי by the side of their face (which, as antagonism is implied, = against, RV), 3:8. b. agreeing with, corresponding to (a common result of juxtaposition), Exodus 38:18 a screen five cubits high החצר קלעי לעמת agreeing with (RV answerable unto) the hangings of the court (in height), Ezekiel 40:18; probably also 1 Chronicles 26:16; Nehemiah 12:24 ל ׳מִשְׁמָר מִשְׁמָר ward corresponding to ward. c. correspondingly to, 1 Chronicles 24:31 they also cast lots אֲחֵיהֶם לְעֻמַּת correspondingly to their brethren, vb the head, correspondinly to his younger brother, 26:12 to these . . . belonged charges correspondingly to (in common with) their brethren. **Ecclesiastes 7:14 side by side with, as well as. d. before a sentence (Ges§ 155n), 1 Chronicles 25:8 (strangely) כַּגָּדוֺל כַּקָּטֹן לְעֻמַּת (see Ke) correspondingly to (the principle) of as the small so the great; Ecclesiastes 5:15 שֶׁכָּא כָּלעֻֿמַּת quite exactly as he came, so shall he go (but LambertRŠJ xxxi. 47, RahlfsTh. Lt. -z. 1896, 587 כִּלְעֻמַּת). e. מִלְּעֻמַּת (see מִן 1c, 9 a) 1 Kings 7:20 close beside. |
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