דָּמָהdâmâh

דָּמָה: be like, resemble

Pronunciation: daw-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1819

Meanings

Qal: be like, resemble (Ezekiel 31:8; Psalms 144:4; Song of Solomon 7:8)

Pi`el: liken, compare; imagine, think, devise (2 Samuel 21:5; Psalms 50:21; Numbers 33:56)

1. liken, i.e. consider to be like, compare, causative of Qal (Song of Solomon 1:9; Isaiah 46:5; Lamentations 2:13)

2. imagine, form an idea, devise, think, intend (2 Samuel 21:5; Numbers 33:56; Judges 20:5)

דָּמָה: be like

Pe`al: active (Daniel 3:25; Daniel 7:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 30 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 33:56 And I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”
  • Judges 20:5 That night some of the leading citizens of Gibeah surrounded the house, planning to kill me, and they raped my concubine until she was dead.
  • 2 Samuel 21:5 Then they replied, “It was Saul who planned to destroy us, to keep us from having any place at all in the territory of Israel.
  • Esther 4:13 Mordecai sent this reply to Esther: “Don’t think for a moment that because you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed.
  • Psalms 48:9 O God, we meditate on your unfailing love as we worship in your Temple.
  • Psalms 50:21 While you did all this, I remained silent, and you thought I didn’t care. But now I will rebuke you, listing all my charges against you.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).