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HebrewH1826Verb

דָּמַם

da.mam

25Occurrences
H1826Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish

a primitive root (compare H1724 (דָּהַם), H1820 (דָּמָה));

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
stationary 1) to be silent, be still, wait, be dumb, grow dumb 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be silent 1a2) to be still, die 1a3) to be struck dumb 1b) (Niphal) to be silenced, be made silent, destroyed 1c) (Poal) to make quiet 1d) (Hiphil) to make silent (cause to die)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

דָּמַם appears 25 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
7
Job
3
Lamentations
3
Psalms
3
1 Samuel
2
Joshua
2
Amos
1
Exodus
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 14:9BSB

If they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.

Isaiah 23:2BSB

Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland,you merchants of Sidon,whose traders have crossed the sea.

Jeremiah 50:30BSB

Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets,and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,”declares the LORD.

Job 31:34BSB

because I greatly feared the crowdsand the contempt of the clans terrified me,so that I kept silentand would not go outside—

Lamentations 3:28BSB

Let him sit alone in silence,for God has disciplined him.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.