STRONG'S HEBREW DICTIONARY
H547
Strong numbering source: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).
QUICK LEXICAL ENTRY
Definition
feminine active participle of אֹמֶן (in the original sense of supporting); a column; pillar.
BROWN–DRIVER–BRIGGS
Historical Hebrew lexicon
BDB supplies fuller lexical senses, grammatical notes, cognate material, and historical citations. A listed sense is not automatically the meaning of this word in every verse; context and grammar determine usage.
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Qal: the most basic Hebrew verbal stem (binyan), often expressing a simple active action, though individual verbs must be interpreted in context.
Source: Brown–Driver–Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping supplied by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); underlying BDB text is public domain.
LEXICAL FAMILY
Root & related forms
These relationships are taken from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon lexical index. They are historical/lexical relationships encoded in that source; they do not mean that related words share the same sense in every context.
Relationship source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0).
CONCORDANCE
Where this word appears
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Source note
Strong numbering: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).
BDB: Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project. Open Scriptures data files are CC BY 4.0; the underlying BDB text is public domain.
Lexical relationships: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0). Root/derivative relationships are displayed only when explicitly encoded in that source; The Bible Directory does not infer etymology from spelling.
Method: KJV wording is displayed as the site translation. Public Hebrew links use the reviewed CrossWire KJV source-span alignment; Hebrew surface forms and morphology come from STEP Bible TAHOT. Translation alignment, lexical identity, and morphology are stored as separate data layers. Ambiguous alignments remain plain text rather than being guessed.