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Hebrew verb · H1819

דָּמָה

damahdaw-maw'

to resemble

30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: dâmâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1819is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 30
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1819

to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider

The King James renders it: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

damah is rendered "to resemble". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 33:56And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”
  • The Greek text spells it thirty different ways.

The first use

And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”

Numbers 33:56דִּמִּ֛יתִי

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's thirty uses are in Isaiah.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • are you like2
  • will you liken me2
  • and be like1
  • and we may be alike1
  • be like1
  • he intended1
  • he is like1
  • he planned1
  • I am like1
  • I gave parables1
  • I have intended1
  • I intended1

and 16 more, 30 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

דָּמַםdamamto silence: stationaryUses30
דָּמָהdamahto ceaseUses15
דָּמַעdamato weepUses2

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 30, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

30 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אֶדַּמֶּ֖ה1
  • אֲדַמֶּה־1
  • אֲדַמֶּֽה׃1
  • דּוֹמֶ֤ה1
  • דָמָ֥ה1
  • דָּמָ֑ה1
  • דְּמֵה־1
  • דִּמָּה־1
  • דִּמּ֣וּ1
  • דָמוּ֙1
  • דִּמִּ֣ינוּ1
  • דָּמִֽינוּ׃ ס1

and 18 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVpi1cs
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVpi2mp/Sp1bs
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVpp1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
  • HC/Vqu1cp1HC/Vqu1cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vqv2ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVNp2ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nun1HVpi2mp/Sn
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person feminine singular1HVpj2fs
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural1HVpp1cp

Numbers

one use
  • And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”

    Numbers 33:56

    • דִּמִּ֛יתִיdimitiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I intended

Judges

one use
  • And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

    Judges 20:5

    • דִּמּ֣וּdimuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they intended

2 Samuel

one use
  • And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

    2 Samuel 21:5

    • דִּמָּה־dimah-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he planned

Esther

one use
  • he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.

    Esther 4:13

    • תְּדַמִּ֣יtedamiverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you imagine

Psalms

five uses
  • Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.

    Psalms 48:9

    • דִּמִּ֣ינוּdiminuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have reflected on
  • You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

    Psalms 50:21

    • דִּמִּ֗יתָdimitaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you imagined
  • For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

    Psalms 89:6

    • יִדְמֶ֥הyidmehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: is he like
  • I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

    Psalms 102:6

    • דָּ֭מִיתִיdamitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am like
  • Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

    Psalms 144:4

    • דָּמָ֑הdamahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is like

Song of Solomon

five uses
  • I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

    Song of Solomon 1:9

    • דִּמִּיתִ֖יךְdimitikhverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: I liken you
  • My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

    Song of Solomon 2:9

    • דּוֹמֶ֤הdomehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: like
  • Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

    Song of Solomon 2:17

    • דְּמֵה־demeh-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: be like
  • Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.

    Song of Solomon 7:7

    • דָּֽמְתָ֣הdametahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is like
  • Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

    Song of Solomon 8:14

    • וּֽדְמֵה־udemeh-conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and be like

Isaiah

eight uses
  • Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

    Isaiah 1:9

    • דָּמִֽינוּ׃ סdaminuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we were like
  • But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

    Isaiah 10:7

    • יְדַמֶּ֔הyedamehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he intended
  • I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

    Isaiah 14:14

    • אֶדַּמֶּ֖הʾeddamehverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will make myself like
  • The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

    Isaiah 14:24

    • דִּמִּ֙יתִי֙dimitiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have intended
  • To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

    Isaiah 40:18

    • תְּדַמְּי֣וּןtedameyunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: will you liken
  • “To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

    Isaiah 40:25

    • תְדַמְּי֖וּנִיtedameyuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will you liken me
  • To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?

    Isaiah 46:5

    • תְדַמְי֖וּנִיtedamyuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will you liken me
    • וְנִדְמֶֽה׃venidmehHC/Vqu1cptagged: and we may be alike

Jeremiah

one use
  • Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

    Jeremiah 6:2

    • דָּמִ֖יתִיdamitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: I resemble

Lamentations

one use
  • What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

    Lamentations 2:13

    • אֲדַמֶּה־ʾadameh-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I liken

Ezekiel

five uses
  • “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Who can be compared to your greatness?

    Ezekiel 31:2

    • דָּמִ֥יתָdamitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: are you like
  • The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.

    Ezekiel 31:8

    • דָמוּ֙damuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were like
    • דָמָ֥הdamahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was like
  • Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”

    Ezekiel 31:18

    • דָמִ֥יתָdamitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: are you like
  • “Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’

    Ezekiel 32:2

    • נִדְמֵ֑יתָnidmeitaverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you became like

Hosea

one use
  • I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.

    Hosea 12:10

    • אֲדַמֶּֽה׃ʾadamehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I gave parables

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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