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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1832

דִּמְעָה

dimahdim-aw'

tears

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

Concordance spelling: dimʻâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1832is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1832

weeping

The King James renders it: tears.

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

dimah is rendered "tears". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 20:5“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 20:5דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ

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

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-three uses are in Psalms.

The other 31 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

  • tear9
  • tear my4
  • tear your3
  • and tear her1
  • by the tears1
  • from tear1
  • in tears1
  • tear of1
  • with tear1
  • with tear my1

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.

דִּמְיוֹןdimyonlikenessUses1

All 23, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 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

  • דִּמְעָ֑ה3
  • דִּמְעָ֔ה2
  • דִּמְעָה֙2
  • דִמְעָתִ֣י2
  • דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ2
  • בְּדִמְעָ֗ה1
  • בִּדְמָע֥וֹת1
  • בַדְּמָע֤וֹת1
  • בְּ֝דִמְעָתִ֗י1
  • דִּמְעָ֖ה1
  • דִּמְעָ֛ה1
  • דִּמְעַ֣ת1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular9HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HNcfsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3HNcfsc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3fs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural1HR/Ncfpa
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HRd/Ncfpa

2 Kings

one use
  • “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 20:5

    • דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָdimatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: tear your

Psalms

eight uses
  • I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

    Psalms 6:6

    • בְּ֝דִמְעָתִ֗יbedimatipreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: with tear my
  • Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

    Psalms 39:12

    • דִּמְעָתִ֗יdimatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: tear my
  • My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

    Psalms 42:3

    • דִמְעָתִ֣יdimatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: tear my
  • You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?

    Psalms 56:8

    • דִמְעָתִ֣יdimatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: tear my
  • You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

    Psalms 80:5

    • דִּמְעָ֑הdimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear
    • בִּדְמָע֥וֹתbidmaotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in tears
  • For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

    Psalms 116:8

    • דִּמְעָ֑הdimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear
  • Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

    Psalms 126:5

    • בְּדִמְעָ֗הbedimahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with tear

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

    Ecclesiastes 4:1

    • דִּמְעַ֣תdimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tear of

Isaiah

three uses
  • So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

    Isaiah 16:9

    • דִּמְעָתִ֔יdimatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: tear my
  • He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

    Isaiah 25:8

    • דִּמְעָ֖הdimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear
  • “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

    Isaiah 38:5

    • דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָdimatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: tear your

Jeremiah

five uses
  • Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

    Jeremiah 9:1

    • דִּמְעָ֑הdimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear
  • Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

    Jeremiah 9:18

    • דִּמְעָ֔הdimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear
  • But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

    Jeremiah 13:17

    • דִּמְעָ֔הdimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear
  • 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.

    Jeremiah 14:17

    • דִּמְעָ֛הdimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear
  • This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

    Jeremiah 31:16

    • מִדִּמְעָ֑הmidimahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: from tear

Lamentations

three uses
  • She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

    Lamentations 1:2

    • וְדִמְעָתָהּ֙vedimatahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and tear her
  • My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    Lamentations 2:11

    • בַדְּמָע֤וֹתvademaotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: by the tears
  • The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.

    Lamentations 2:18

    • דִּמְעָה֙dimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear

Ezekiel

one use
  • “Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.

    Ezekiel 24:16

    • דִּמְעָתֶֽךָ׃dimatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: tear your

Malachi

one use
  • And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

    Malachi 2:13

    • דִּמְעָה֙dimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: tear

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.

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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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