דְּמָמָה
dᵉmâmâh · H1827 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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silence, whisper
A soft, hushed sound, if any sound at all, signifying the opposite of the loud noise produced by a storm, thunder, earthquakes etc
Examples1 Kings 19:12 And after the earthquake, a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire, a sound of a gentle blowing.
Job 4:16 “Something was standing still, but I could not recognize its appearance; A form was before my eyes; There was silence, then I heard a voice:
Psalm 107:29 He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דַּקthin 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוֹלvoice, sound 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Non-Speak002004001009004
- דְּמָמָה denotes silence or stillness, most famously the "still small voice" or gentle whisper in which the LORD spoke to Elijah at Horeb.
- Sounds002004001009007
- דְּמָמָה also names the faint, gentle sound itself — a whisper or hushed murmur — as distinct from silence's mere absence of sound, the very sound Elijah heard after the wind, earthquake, and fire.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1827. demamah דְּמָמָה noun feminine (silence) whisper (on formation compare BaNB 87) —…
דְּמָמָה noun feminine (silence) whisper (on formation compare BaNB 87) — דַקָּ֑ה דְּמָמָה קוֺל הָאֵשׁ וְאַחַר 1Ki 19:12; אֶשְׁמָ֑ע זָקוֺל דְּמָמָה Job 4:16 a whisper and a voice, i.e. an articulate whisper (compare Di); לִדְמָמָ֑ה סְעָרָה יָקֵם Psa 107:29 he settleth storm into whisper.
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
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
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