Hebrew verb · H1820
דָּמָה
damahdaw-mam'
to cease
15 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 H1820is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1820
to be dumb or silent; hence, to fail or perish; trans. to destroy
The King James renders it: cease, be cut down (off), destroy, be brought to silence, be undone, [idiom] utterly.
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 cease". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Hosea, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 49:12But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 49:12נִדְמֽוּ׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's fifteen uses are in Hosea.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it was destroyed2
- they are destroyed2
- and I will destroy1
- be destroyed1
- certainly to be destroyed1
- he will be destroyed1
- I am destroyed1
- it will be destroyed1
- it will be silent1
- it will cease1
- they cease1
- they have been destroyed1
and 1 more, 15 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דָּמָה | damah | to resemble | Uses30 |
| דָּמַם | damam | to silence: stationary | Uses30 |
| דָּמַע | dama | to weep | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- נִדְמֽוּ׃2
- וְדָמִ֖יתִי1
- נִדְמֶ֥ה1
- נִדְמָ֔ה1
- נִדְמָ֖ה1
- נִדְמָה֙1
- נִדְמֹ֥ה1
- נִדְמָֽה׃1
- נִדְמ֥וּ1
- נִדְמֵ֔יתָה1
- נִדְמֵ֗יתִי1
- נִדְמְתָ֥ה1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVNp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVNp3cp
- Hc/Vqq1cs1Hc/Vqq1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive absolute1HVNaa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVNp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVNp2ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNp3fs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine plural1HVqj3fp
Psalms
two uses
But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- נִדְמֽוּ׃nidmuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are destroyed
A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
- נִדְמֽוּ׃nidmuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are destroyed
Isaiah
three uses
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
- נִדְמֵ֗יתִיnidmeitiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am destroyed
This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
- נִדְמָ֔הnidmahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was destroyed
- נִדְמָֽה׃nidmahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was destroyed
Jeremiah
two uses
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
- תִּדְמֶ֑ינָהtidmeinahverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they cease
The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?
- נִדְמְתָ֥הnidmetahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be silent
Lamentations
one use
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
- תִדְמֶ֖הtidmehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will cease
Hosea
five uses
You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
- וְדָמִ֖יתִיvedamitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will destroy
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
- נִדְמ֥וּnidmuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been destroyed
Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
- נִדְמֶ֥הnidmehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: be destroyed
Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
- נִדְמֹ֥הnidmohverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to be destroyed
- נִדְמָ֖הnidmahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be destroyed
Obadiah
one use
“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
- נִדְמֵ֔יתָהnidmeitahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will be destroyed
Zephaniah
one use
Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.
- נִדְמָה֙nidmahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be destroyed
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.