דָּמָהdâmâh
cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy
Pronunciation: daw-mam' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1820
Meanings
Qal
1. cease (Jeremiah 14:17; Lamentations 3:49)
2. cause to cease, cut off, destroy (Jeremiah 6:2; Hosea 4:5)
Niph`al: be cut off, destroyed, ruined, be ruined, undone (Isaiah 15:1; Jeremiah 47:15; Obadiah 1:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 15 times in the Bible.
- Psalms 49:12 but their fame will not last. They will die, just like animals.
- Psalms 49:20 People who boast of their wealth don’t understand; they will die, just like animals.
- Isaiah 6:5 Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
- Isaiah 15:1 This message came to me concerning Moab: In one night the town of Ar will be leveled, and the city of Kir will be destroyed.
- Jeremiah 14:17 Now, Jeremiah, say this to them: “Night and day my eyes overflow with tears. I cannot stop weeping, for my virgin daughter—my precious people— has been struck down and lies mortally wounded.
- Jeremiah 47:5 Gaza will be humiliated, its head shaved bald; Ashkelon will lie silent. You remnant from the Mediterranean coast, how long will you cut yourselves in mourning?
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).