Word Summary
hormēma: a rush
Original Word: ὅρμημαTransliteration: hormēma
Phonetic Spelling: (hor'-may-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a rush
Meaning: a rush
Strong's Concordance
violence.
From horme; an attack, i.e. (abstractly) precipitancy -- violence.
see GREEK horme
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3731: ὅρμημαὅρμημα,
ὁρμηματος,
τό (
ὁρμάω),
a rush, impulse:
Revelation 18:21 (here
A. V. violence). (For
עֶבְרָה outburst of wrath,
Amos 1:11;
Habakkuk 3:8, cf. Schleusner, Thesaurus iv., p. 123;
an enterprise, venture, Homer, Iliad 2, 356, 590, although interpreters differ about its meaning there (cf. Ebeling, Lex.
Homer or Liddell and Scott, v.);
that to which one is impelled or hurried away by impulse (rather,
incitement, stimulus),
Plutarch, mor. (de virt. mor. § 12), p. 452c.)