דִּמְעָהdimʻâh

tears (Psalms 80:6; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Psalms 6:7; 2 Kings 20:5; Isaiah 38:5)

Pronunciation: dim-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1832

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 23 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 20:5 “Go back to Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you, and three days from now you will get out of bed and go to the Temple of the Lord.
  • Psalms 6:6 I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears.
  • Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cries for help! Don’t ignore my tears. For I am your guest— a traveler passing through, as my ancestors were before me.
  • Psalms 42:3 Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?”
  • Psalms 56:8 You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.
  • Psalms 80:5 You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
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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).