Word

דָּמָה

dâmâh · H1820 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences

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Meanings

to cease

Process by which part of the body is reduced to inactivity

Examples
Jeremiah 14:17 “You will say this word to them, ‘Let my eyes stream down tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, With a sorely infected wound.
to perish, to be no more

Process by which humans or objects are removed from existence, through death or total destruction

Examples
Psalm 49:12 But man in his splendor will not endure; He is like the animals that perish.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

15 occurrences in 8 groups

Not stated: I 3
Not stated: they 3
Not stated: he, she or it 3
עַםpeople 2
מֶלֶךְking 1
שֹׁמְרוֹןSamaria 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 3 groups

נָאוֶהfitting, lovely 1
אֵםmother 1
עָנַגto delight oneself, to be delicate 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מִןfrom+ דַּעַתknowledge 1
מִןfrom+ אַיִןthere is no, not 1
בin/on/with+ שַׁחַרdawn 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 1
אַלnot, do not 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.

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.

Semantic domains 4 entries

End002003003010: דָּמַם/דָּמָה denotes coming to an end, being cut off, or being destroyed, as at Isaiah 6:5 — "Woe to me, for I am ruined!" — and Isaiah 15:1 — "in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined."
Non-Exist002002002006: This lexeme denotes ceasing to exist or being brought to nothing, the same core sense illustrated under the end/cease bullet above (Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah 15:1) rather than a distinct, independently attested sense of its own.
Compare002004002003: This entry carries no comparison sense of its own; the domain is bundle-shared with the distinct lexeme דָּמָה (dâmâh, H1819). See דָּמָה (dâmâh, H1819).
Think002004002013: This entry carries no think/devise sense of its own; the domain is bundle-shared with the distinct lexeme דָּמָה (dâmâh, H1819). See דָּמָה (dâmâh, H1819).

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

דָּמָהdâmâh · H1820דָּם dâm · H1818 · blood, blood > wine · 360×דָּמַם dâmam · H1826 · to stand still, to be still, to wait · 30×דּוּמִיָּה dûwmîyâh · H1747 · silence · 4×דְּמִי dᵉmîy · H1824 · to be silent, to keep silent · 4×דּוּמָם dûwmâm · H1748 · silently, in silence, dumb · 3×דְּמָמָה dᵉmâmâh · H1827 · silence, whisper · 3×דֻּמָּה dummâh · H1822 · perished, no more · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1820. damah II. [דָּמָה] verb cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy — Qal…

H1820. damah
II. [דָּמָה] verb cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy —
Qal Perfect1singular דָּמִיתִי Jer 6:2, וְדָמִ֫יתִי consecutive Hos 4:5; Imperfect3feminine singular תִּדְמֶה Lam 3:49; Lam 3:3feminine plural jussive תִּדְמֶינָה Jer 14:17; —
1 intransitive cease Jer 14:17 (eyes from weeping)Lam 3:49 (id.)
2 cause to cease, cut off, destroy, with accusative Israel (under figure of בתצֿיון) Jer 6:2; (under figure of אִמֶּ֑ךָ) Hos 4:5.
Niph`al Perfect נִדְמָה Isa 15:1 (twice in verse) +; 3feminine singular נִדְמְתָה Jeremiah 47:15; Jer 47:2masculine singular נִדְמֵיתָה Obadiah 5, נִדְמֵיתָ Eze 32:2; Eze 32:1singular נִדְמֵיתִי Isa 6:5; Isa 6:3plural נִדְמוּ Hos 4:6 +; Infinitive absolute נִדְמֹה Hos 10:15; Participle נִדְמֶה Hos 10:7; be cut off, destroyed, ruined, of a city Isa 15:1 (twice in verse) (|| שֻׁדַּד) Jer 47:5; of people Hos 4:6; Zep 1:11; Obadiah 5; of king Hos 10:7, Hos 10:15 (twice in verse) compare Eze 32:2; of beasts Psa 49:13; Psalm 49:21; be ruined, undone, prophet at sight of Yahweh Isa 6:5.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0