Double Mem

The double MemMem מם, like other Double letters in Hebrew, has significance greater than the single Mem. The Mem has a numerical value of 40 and as a word a value of 80 which is a double MEM. There are different levels that the meaning of Mem may be manifested. God parted the waters to create, which resulted in the upper and lower waters.

Amam AlefMemMem comes from a root often found in Semitic languages. In the Hebrew root the word has a double Mem, one open and one closed. The double Mem often seems to include the idea of visible and also hidden or concealed. It is part of the secrets or mysteries of life's dynamics because it refers to the flow of life in the visible physical world and the less visible quantum or spiritual world.

The first place we see the term ‘amam (עָמַם‎) is in Lamentations^[1] tells of "gold" becoming dim.

But this reference is not about "gold" but the "sons of Zion". They ask why what should be golden vessels have become earthen pitchers.^[2] It is in part that they fail to care for or feed their own young children.^[3]

They feed them the "royal dainties"^[4], the dainties of rulers. This common theme of iniquity throughout the Bible alters the people, and brings the destruction of Sodom.^[5] That iniquity turns what should be white to blackness.^[6]

We also see ‘amam in Ezekiel.^[7]

The Peculiar people of God are those who are intimate with God's revealed but other wise hidden knowledge. That knowledge comes by way of the Tree of life which is spiritual rather than the mere Tree of knowledge. This is the lack of that knowledge that brings destruction.

Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."

The word "lack" is balah^[8] which is about "a wearing out" or a "gradually withdrawal" like the creeping in we see in 2 Timothy 3:6 which is the result of a process of cause and effect, a gradual flow from one jurisdiction to another.

2 Timothy 3:6 "For of this sort are they which creep^[9] into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,"

There is another root word with a double Mem which is "Hamam" with a double Mem (הָמַם‎)^[10] first seen in Exodus 14:24 as the word troubled and again in Exodus 23:27 as destroy all the people by His fear and again in Deuteronomy 2:15 are just a few of the places this word hamam appears in scripture.

Shin+double Mem+Nun (שְׁמָמָה)

08079. semamith (שְׂמָמִית)► a lizard
08078 shimmamon (שִׁמָּמוֹן)► horror
08077 shemamah or shimamah (שְׁמָמָה) ► devastation, waste
08076 shamem (שָׁמֵם) ► devastated

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↑ Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim <06004>! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
↑ Lamentations 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
↑ Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.
↑ Genesis 49:20 Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
↑ Lamentations 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
↑ Lamentations 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of sapphire: 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
↑ Ezekiel 28:3 Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide <06004> from thee:
Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide <06004> him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
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01097 בְּלִי‎ BeitLamedYod bëliy [bel-ee’] from 01086; subst/adv-neg [BDB-115b] see Belial [{See TWOT on 246 @@ "246e" }] AV-not, without, un … , lack of, so that no, corruption; 14
- subst
1) wearing out

2) [fig.] destruction, hell [{#Isa 38:17 }]
- adv of negation
2) without, no, not
↑ 1744 ἐνδύνω enduno [en-doo’-no] from 1772 ennomos meaning bound to the law and 1416 duno translated set but meaning go under; v; AV-creep 1; 1
1) to put on, to envelop in, to hide in
1a) literally: to put on, clothe with a garment

1b) metaph. put on armour

2) to creep into, insinuate one’s self into, to enter
↑ 02000 הָמַם‎ hamam [haw-mam’] a primitive root HeyMemMem [compare 01949 HeyVavMem to distract, ring again, 01993 HeyMemHey roar, cry aloud,]; v; [BDB-243a] [{See TWOT on 507 }] AV-discomfit 5, destroy 3, vex 1, crush 1, break 1, consume 1 trouble 1; 13
1) to move noisily, confuse, make a noise, discomfit, break, consume, crush, destroy, trouble, vex
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to move noisily

1a2) to confuse, discomfit, vex

[1] Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim <06004>! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

[2] Lamentations 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

[3] Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.

[4] Genesis 49:20 Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

[5] Lamentations 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

[6] Lamentations 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of sapphire: 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

[7] Ezekiel 28:3 Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide <06004> from thee:
Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide <06004> him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

[lack-8] 01097 בְּלִי‎ BeitLamedYod bëliy [bel-ee’] from 01086; subst/adv-neg [BDB-115b] see Belial [{See TWOT on 246 @@ "246e" }] AV-not, without, un … , lack of, so that no, corruption; 14
subst

1) wearing out

2) [fig.] destruction, hell [{#Isa 38:17 }]

adv of negation

2) without, no, not

[9] subst

[10] v of negation

[creep-9] 1744 ἐνδύνω enduno [en-doo’-no] from 1772 ennomos meaning bound to the law and 1416 duno translated set but meaning go under; v; AV-creep 1; 1
1) to put on, to envelop in, to hide in
1a) literally: to put on, clothe with a garment

1b) metaph. put on armour

2) to creep into, insinuate one’s self into, to enter

[Hamam-10] 02000 הָמַם‎ hamam [haw-mam’] a primitive root HeyMemMem [compare 01949 HeyVavMem to distract, ring again, 01993 HeyMemHey roar, cry aloud,]; v; [BDB-243a] [{See TWOT on 507 }] AV-discomfit 5, destroy 3, vex 1, crush 1, break 1, consume 1 trouble 1; 13
1) to move noisily, confuse, make a noise, discomfit, break, consume, crush, destroy, trouble, vex
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to move noisily

1a2) to confuse, discomfit, vex

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