דּוּמָם
dûwmâm · H1748 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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silently, in silence, dumb
State in which someone refrains from speaking
ExamplesIsaiah 47:5 “Sit silently, and go into darkness, Daughter of the Chaldeans; For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.
Lamentations 3:26 It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.
Habakkuk 2:19 “Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’ To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’ That is your teacher? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, Yet there is no breath at all inside it.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶבֶןstone 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- חָרַשׁ chârash · H2790 · to engrave (on stone), to carve (wood), to plow
- חָרַשׁ is a common Hebrew verb for keeping silent or holding one's peace, closely parallel to דּוּמָם but a distinct root denoting deliberate silence or quietness.
- חָשָׁה châshâh · H2814 · to be silent, to keep silent, to cause to be silent
- חָשָׁה means to be silent or still, particularly in the sense of quiet expectation or keeping silence, very close in meaning to דּוּמָם.
Contrasting words 2 words
- דָבַר dâbar · H1696 · to destroy, to get rid of, to do away with
- דָּבַר (to speak) is the direct opposite of being dumb/silent (דּוּמָם), representing active speech versus silence.
- צָעַק tsâʻaq · H6817 · to cry out, to call for help, to appeal
- צָעַק (to cry out or shout) represents vocal outcry, the opposite of silent waiting or quietness denoted by דּוּמָם.
In the other Testament 2 words
- σιωπάω siōpáō · G4623 · to keep quiet, to be silent, to not be able to speak
- σιωπάω is the standard Greek verb for being silent or keeping silence, a direct translation equivalent for the Hebrew דּוּמָם when denoting the state of being silent or quiet.
- ἡσυχάζω hēsycházō · G2270 · to rest, to live a quiet life
- ἡσυχάζω captures the quietness and stillness aspect of דּוּמָם, particularly the sense of quiet waiting or resting in silence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Speak002004001009004
- דּוּמָם describes being silent or still, an adverbial expression of waiting quietly without speaking, as in the call to sit in silence and wait for the LORD's salvation.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1748. dumam II. דּוּמָה proper name 1. masculine son of Ishmael Gen 25:15 = 1Ch 1:30…
II. דּוּמָה proper name
1. masculine son of Ishmael Gen 25:15 = 1Ch 1:30 compare probably Dumath al-Jandal in Northern Arabia in Jôf see BurckhardtTravels in Syria 662f. Di; also GesComm. on Isa 21:11, GlaserSkizze ii. 392, 440.
2 city in mountains of Judah Jos 15:52, compare Δοῦμα in the Daroma, 17 miles from Eleutheropolis LagOnom. 250. 2nd ed. 258, = modern Daume, southwest from Hebron van de VeldeMemoir 308 GuérinJudée iii. 359 ff. compare Di.
3 name of Edom with mystic meaning Isa 21:11 Duma = silence of death, desolation, De Che and others (JDMich Ges Hi think 31; ᵐ5 has Ἰδουμαια; Jerome interprets as part of Idumea; still another view below I.דּוּמָה).
דּוּמָם noun [masculine] silence Hab 2:19 ד ׳אֶבֶן stone of silence = dumb stone;
adverb in silence, silently, Isa 47:5; Lam 3:26 (? read here וְרָמַם from דמם).
דּוּמֶּ֫שֶׂק 2Ki 16:10 compare דַּמֶּשֶׂק.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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