A noise , tumult , crowd ; also disquietude , wealth
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H1995 is a Hebrew noun for a noise, tumult, crowd, multitude, abundance, wealth, or great company. Amos 5:23 records the Lord rejecting the noise of songs offered within a community that withholds justice, so impressive worship sound cannot compensate for corrupt public life.
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H1995 is a Hebrew noun for a noise, tumult, crowd, multitude, abundance, wealth, or great company. Amos 5:23 records the Lord rejecting the noise of songs offered within a community that withholds justice, so impressive worship sound cannot compensate for corrupt public life.
The BSB source-word alignment has 83 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include army (9), her multitudes (4), his multitude (4), multitude (4), its wealth (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 17:4. Its strongest book concentrations include Ezekiel (24), Isaiah (14), 2 Chronicles (9), Daniel (6).
H1995 is a Hebrew noun for a noise, tumult, crowd, multitude, abundance, wealth, or great company. Amos 5:23 records the Lord rejecting the noise of songs offered within a community that withholds justice, so impressive worship sound cannot compensate for corrupt public life. First Chronicles 29:16 calls the generous provision for the temple an abundance that came from God's own hand and still belonged to him.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 warns that the person who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. Other settings include the roar of nations and waters, the bustle of cities, armies, households, possessions, and crowds descending into silence at death. H1995 opens scale, sound, social force, and material plenty. It corrects assumptions that numerical growth, emotional volume, financial abundance, or a large following is self-authenticating evidence of divine approval.
H1995 names abundance that may be heard, counted, gathered, possessed, or mobilized: roaring noise, restless tumult, a large crowd, many people, or much wealth. Context determines whether the multitude serves generosity, threat, vanity, worship, or judgment.
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
God refuses the noise of worship music when the community's public life is separated from justice and righteousness.
O Lord our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You.
David confesses that the temple abundance offered by the people came from God's hand and remained God's possession.
He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.
The Teacher exposes the endless dissatisfaction of loving money and being impressed by increasing wealth.
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Hebrew word. Overwhelming sensory or social force—noise/crowd's disruptive power; also abundance of possessions, animals, or people.
Overwhelming sensory or social force—noise/crowd's disruptive power; also abundance of possessions, animals, or people.
a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth BDB: sound Usage: abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult.
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H1995 refuses to let magnitude interpret itself. The same word family can evoke the roar of a crowd, the force of an army, the activity of a city, or the abundance of goods. Amos shows that God can call magnificent worship mere noise when the worshiping community obstructs justice. Chronicles shows another posture: people give abundantly, yet David confesses that everything came from God and belongs to God.
Ecclesiastes then unmasks the hunger that wealth cannot satisfy. Churches should therefore neither romanticize scarcity nor canonize growth. Budgets, buildings, crowds, platforms, and musical energy are entrusted means, not verdicts on spiritual health. Leaders should disclose how resources are obtained and used, attend to people harmed or excluded by growth, and welcome truthful evaluation.
Generosity can be celebrated without flattering donors or silencing questions. Worship grows credible when gratitude, integrity, neighbor love, and public justice accompany its sound.
Amos.5.23
H1995 is a collective noun whose range includes audible commotion and measurable plenty. Translators may render it noise, tumult, multitude, crowd, abundance, or wealth according to the surrounding verbs, possessors, comparisons, and social setting.
Jesus resists equating possessions with life and repeatedly redirects crowds toward costly discipleship. The apostolic churches receive gifts as grace for shared service, while warning that impressive speech, wealth, or gatherings without love become empty sound.