הֲמוֹן גּוֹגHămôwn Gôwg
גּוֺג: 1.
Pronunciation: ham-one' gohg · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1996
Meanings
a Reubenite (1 Chronicles 5:4)
2. Gog of the land of Magog, prince of Rosh, Meshak, and Tubal (Ezekiel 38:2; Ezekiel 38:3; Ezekiel 39:1)
הָמוֺן: sound, murmur, roar, crowd, abundance
1. of rain, sound, murmur, rush, roar, murmur, roar, especially sound made by a crowd of people (Psalms 65:8; Isaiah 13:4; Isaiah 33:3)
2. tumult, confusion, (as occasioning a roar) (1 Samuel 14:19; 2 Samuel 18:29)
3. crowd, multitude
4. great number, abundance (2 Chronicles 11:23; Jeremiah 49:32; 1 Chronicles 29:16)
5. abundance, wealth (Psalms 37:16; Ecclesiastes 5:9; Isaiah 60:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Ezekiel 39:11 “And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea. It will block the way of those who travel there, and they will change the name of the place to the Valley of Gog’s Hordes.
- Ezekiel 39:15 Whenever bones are found, a marker will be set up so the burial crews will take them to be buried in the Valley of Gog’s Hordes.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).