דָּמַםdâmam

דָּמַם: be or grow dumb, silent, still

Pronunciation: daw-man' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1826

Meanings

Qal

1. be silent (Psalms 4:5; Psalms 30:13; Psalms 35:15)

2. be still (Job 31:34; Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 48:2)

3. be struck dumb, astounded (Exodus 15:16; Isaiah 23:2)

Niph`al: be made silent, i.e. destroyed (Jeremiah 25:37; Jeremiah 49:26; Jeremiah 50:30)

Po.: and quieted (Psalms 131:2)

Hiph`il: (= caused to perish) (Jeremiah 8:14)

דָּמַם: wail, ?

Qal: wail, ye coast dwellers (Isaiah 23:2; Isaiah 23:1; Isaiah 23:6)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 30 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 15:16 terror and dread fall upon them. The power of your arm makes them lifeless as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people you purchased pass by.
  • Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘I will display my holiness through those who come near me. I will display my glory before all the people.’” And Aaron was silent.
  • Joshua 10:12 On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the Lord in front of all the people of Israel. He said, “Let the sun stand still over Gibeon, and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.”
  • Joshua 10:13 So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies. Is this event not recorded in The Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and it did not set as on a normal day.
  • 1 Samuel 2:9 “He will protect his faithful ones, but the wicked will disappear in darkness. No one will succeed by strength alone.
  • 1 Samuel 14:9 If they say to us, ‘Stay where you are or we’ll kill you,’ then we will stop and not go up to them.
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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).