דָּמָה
da.mah
“to resemble”
Definition
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
a primitive root;
- to be like, resemble 1a) (Qal) to be like, resemble 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to liken, compare 1b2) to imagine, think 1c) (Hithpael) to make oneself like 1d) (Niphal) Aramaic equivalent: de.mah (*דְּמָה *"be like" H1821)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
דָּמָה appears 23 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
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I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High.”
To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal?To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?
And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”
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