Word

דִּמְעָה

dimʻâh · H1832 · Hebrew · 23 occurrences

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Meanings

tears

Fluid appearing in the eye; primarily associated with grief and mourning

Examples
2 Kings 20:5 “Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David says: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I am going to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold, I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and power was on the side of their oppressors, but they had no one to comfort them.
Isaiah 16:9 Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

How it’s used In 7 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

10 occurrences in 4 groups

יmy 5
ךָyour 3
עָשַׁקto practice extortion 1
הּher 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁלִישׁofficer, captain 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What is done to itIt is the object

5 occurrences in 4 groups

רָאָהto see 2
יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
מָחָהto wipe 1
שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לְחִיjaw 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 8
אֵלto, toward 2
מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לֶחֶםbread, food 1
מָקוֹרspring 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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In the other Testament 1 word

δάκρυ dákry · G1144 · tear: Greek δάκρυ (dakry) is the direct Greek translation equivalent of Hebrew דִּמְעָה (dim'ah), both denoting tears as the physical fluid produced by weeping or grief.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Body Products001003001002: דִּמְעָה names tears, the bodily fluid of weeping, referenced throughout the Psalms and prophets as an expression of grief and lament.

Word family 3 words

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

דָּמַע dâmaʻ · H1830 · to flow (with tears) · 2×דִּמְעָהdimʻâh · H1832דֶּמַע demaʻ · H1831 · juice · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1832. dimah דִּמְעָה noun feminine collective tears (chiefly poetic and late; frequently…

H1832. dimah
דִּמְעָה noun feminine collective tears (chiefly poetic and late; frequently in Jeremiah and contemporary) (Arabic ; Assyrian dimu, dimtu HptKAT 2 Gloss i. ZimBP 23, 95; Aramaic דִּמְעָא, ; Late Hebrew דִּמְעָה דֶּמַע,) — absolute ׳ד Psa 80:6 Psa 80:10t.; construct דִּמְעַת Ecc 4:1; suffix דִּמְעָתִי Psa 6:7 Psa 6:4t.; דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ 2Ki 20:5 = Isa 38:5 + Eze 24:16 (strike out ᵐ5 Co); דִּמְעָתָהּ Lam 1:2; plural דְּמָעוֺת Psa 80:6; Lam 2:11 — tears Psa 6:7; Ecc 4:1; Lam 1:2; Lam 2:11; especially in Jeremiah in phrase ד ׳עֵינִי תֵּרֵד etc. Jer 9:17; Jer 13:17; Jer 14:17, compare Lam 2:18; Jeremiah 8:23 ד ׳מְקוֺר וְעֵינִי; דִּמְעָתִי אֲרַיָּ֫וֶךְ of weeping over, in behalf of one Isa 16:9; as appealing to God's compassion 2Ki 20:5 = Isa 38:5; Psa 39:13; Psa 56:9 בְּנאֹדֶ֑ךָ ד ׳שִׂימָה (compare Che); see also Psa 116:8; Jer 31:16; Isa 25:8; opposed to רִנָּה Psa 126:5; of hypocritical tears Mal 2:13; figurative tears as food Psa 42:4 (לחם דִּמְעָתִי); ד ׳לחם Psa 80:6; as drink Psa 80:6, compare Babylonian dimtu maštîtî, tears (were) my drink (ZimBP 42; || bikîtum kurmatî, weeping (was) my sustenance). — Eze 24:16 דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ תָבוֺא וְלֹא strike out ᵐ5 Co compare Eze 24:23.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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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