Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H1834
דַּמֶּשֶׂק
Dammeseqdam-meh'-sek
Damascus
45 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1834is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 33spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1834
Damascus, a city of Syria
The King James renders it: Damascus.
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
Dammeseq is rendered "Damascus". It stands 45 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Ten of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 14:15During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-three different ways.
The first use
During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
Genesis 14:15לְדַמָּֽשֶׂק׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Damascus31
- in Damascus5
- from Damascus4
- of Damascus2
- and Damascus1
- like Damascus1
- to Damascus1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 45, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
33 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
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק8
- דַמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙2
- דַּמֶּ֗שֶׂק2
- דַּמֶּ֧שֶׂק2
- דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק2
- דַּרְמֶ֔שֶׂק2
- בְדַמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙1
- בְּדַמֶּ֖שֶׂק1
- בְּדַמָּ֑שֶׂק1
- בְּדַמָּֽשֶׂק׃1
- בְּדַרְמֶ֖שֶׂק1
- דּוּמֶּ֔שֶׂק1
and 21 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)31HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)13HR/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
Genesis
two uses
During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
- לְדַמָּֽשֶׂק׃ledamasekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Damascus
But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
- דַּמֶּ֥שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
2 Samuel
two uses
When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
1 Kings
five uses
and had gathered men to himself. When David killed the Zobaites, Rezon captained a band of raiders and went to Damascus, where they settled and gained control.
- דַמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙damesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
- בְּדַמָּֽשֶׂק׃bedamasekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Damascus
So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
- בְּדַמֶּ֖שֶׂקbedamesekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Damascus
Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.
- דַמָּ֑שֶׂקdamasekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.
- בְדַמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙vedamesekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Damascus
2 Kings
ten uses
Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
- דַּמֶּ֗שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, along with all his accomplishments and might, and how he waged war and recovered both Damascus and Hamath for Israel from Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
- דַּמֶּ֧שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
- דַּמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙damesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.
- דּוּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdumesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
- בְּדַמָּ֑שֶׂקbedamasekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Damascus
And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.
- מִדַּמֶּ֗שֶׂקmidamesekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Damascus
- מִדַּמָּֽשֶׂק׃midamasekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Damascus
When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.
- מִדַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקmidamesekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Damascus
1 Chronicles
two uses
When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.
- דַּרְמֶ֔שֶׂקdarmesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
- דַּרְמֶ֔שֶׂקdarmesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
2 Chronicles
four uses
So Asa withdrew the silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent it with this message to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
- בְּדַרְמֶ֖שֶׂקbedarmesekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Damascus
In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
- דַּרְמָֽשֶׂק׃darmasekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.
- דַּרְמָ֑שֶׂקdarmasekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Since Damascus had defeated him, he sacrificed to their gods and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.
- דַרְמֶשֶׂק֮darmesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Song of Solomon
one use
Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
- דַמָּֽשֶׂק׃damasekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Isaiah
seven uses
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
- דַּמֶּ֖שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
- דַּמֶּ֗שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- כְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂקkhedamesekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Damascus
This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
- דַּמָּ֑שֶׂקdamasekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
- דַמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙damesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- מִדַּמֶּ֖שֶׂקmidamesekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Damascus
Jeremiah
three uses
Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
- לְדַמֶּ֗שֶׂקledamesekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Damascus
Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor.
- דַמֶּ֛שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
- דַּמָּ֑שֶׂקdamasekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Ezekiel
five uses
Because of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar,
- דַּמֶּ֧שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
On the north side it will extend from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon through Lebo-hamath to Zedad, Berothah, and Sibraim (which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
So the border will run from the Sea to Hazar-enan, along the northern border of Damascus, with the territory of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.
- דַּמֶּשֶׂק֩damesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
“Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus with Hamath to the north, and extending from the east side to the west side.
- דַּמֶּ֤שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Amos
three uses
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
- דַמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler of the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.
- דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂקdamesekproper noun (a name)tagged: Damascus
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
- לְדַמָּ֑שֶׂקledamasekpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Damascus
Zechariah
one use
This is the burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting place—for the eyes of men and of all the tribes of Israel are upon the LORD—
- וְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂקvedamesekconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Damascus
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.