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דָּם

dam

dawm

Strong's 1890 spelling: dâm

blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)

Rendered in the KJV as

blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.

  • 360
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 28 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 184
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 360 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 184

  • הַדָּ֔ם15
  • דָּ֣ם10
  • דָּ֑ם9
  • הַדָּם֙9
  • דַּ֥ם8
  • הַדָּ֖ם8
  • מִדַּ֣ם8
  • מִדַּ֤ם6
  • דַּֽם־5
  • דַּם־5
  • דָּֽם׃5
  • דָּמ֣וֹ5

and 172 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 79

  • the blood63
  • blood48
  • [the] blood of25
  • blood its19
  • bloods19
  • and blood14
  • some of [the] blood of11
  • blood his10
  • [the] bloods of9
  • blood their7
  • bloods their6
  • in the blood6

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 43

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular64
  • noun · masculine singular49
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)27
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular24
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)24
  • noun · masculine plural20
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular19
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular12
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)12
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular11
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural8
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural8
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 64
  • HNcmsa · 49
  • HNcmsc · 27
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 24
  • HR/Ncmsc · 24
  • HNcmpa · 20
  • HR/Ncmsa · 19
  • HC/Ncmsa · 12
  • HNcmpc · 12
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 11
  • HNcmsc/Sp3mp · 8
  • HR/Ncmpa · 8

All 360, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Leviticus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis11 occurrences
Exodus29 occurrences
Leviticus88 occurrences
Numbers15 occurrences
Deuteronomy23 occurrences
Joshua5 occurrences
Judges1 occurrence
1 Samuel8 occurrences
2 Samuel12 occurrences
1 Kings12 occurrences
2 Kings13 occurrences
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
2 Chronicles8 occurrences
Job2 occurrences
Psalms21 occurrences
Proverbs8 occurrences
Isaiah15 occurrences
Jeremiah9 occurrences
Lamentations2 occurrences
Ezekiel55 occurrences
Hosea5 occurrences
Joel4 occurrences
Jonah1 occurrence
Micah2 occurrences
Nahum1 occurrence
Habakkuk3 occurrences
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Zechariah2 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).