dama · think, intend; be like

What it means

dama (דָּמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “think, intend; be like”.

Think, intend; also compare or be like.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be like another, or to set one thing beside another as equal.
2. To form an idea in the mind, or devise a plan.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• like ×10
• imagine ×2
• resembled ×2
• will you liken me ×2
• I gave parables ×1
• I have intended ×1
• I liken you ×1
• I thought ×1
• We have thought ×1
• planned ×1
• others ×7

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Esther×1
• Psalms×5
• Song of Songs×5
• Isaiah×8
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Hosea×1

• Numbers 33:56

  And it shall be that as I thought to do to them, I will do to you.”

• Judges 20:5

  And the lords of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house around me at night. Me they intended to kill, and my concubine they humiliated, and she died.

• 2 Samuel 21:5

  They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who planned against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in all the territory of Israel:

• Esther 4:13

  And Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine for yourself that you will escape in the king’s house more than all the Jews.

• Psalms 48:9

  We have thought, Elohim, of your loyal love in the midst of your temple.

• Psalms 50:21

  These things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought that I would surely be like you. I will rebuke you and lay it out before your eyes.

• Psalms 89:6

  For who in the cloud can compare with YHWH, who is like YHWH among the sons of El?

• Psalms 102:6

  I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the ruins.

• Psalms 144:4

  A human being is like a vapor; his days are like a shadow that passes.

• Song of Songs 1:9

  To my mare among the chariots of Pharaoh I liken you, my companion.

• Song of Songs 2:9

  My beloved is like a gazelle or a fawn. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices.

• Song of Songs 2:17

  Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a fawn on the mountains of Bether.

• Song of Songs 7:7

  This stature of yours is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters.

• Song of Songs 8:14

  Flee, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a fawn on the mountains of balsams.

• Isaiah 1:9

  Unless YHWH Tsevaot had left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

• Isaiah 10:7

  But he does not imagine it so, and his heart does not plan so; for to destroy is in his heart, and to cut off nations not a few.

• Isaiah 14:14

  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like Elyon.’

• Isaiah 14:24

  YHWH Tsevaot has sworn, saying, “Surely as I have intended, so it will be, and as I have planned, it will stand:

• Isaiah 40:18

  And to whom will you liken El, and what likeness will you set beside him?

• Isaiah 40:25

  “And to whom will you liken me, that I should be equal to him?” says the Holy One.

• Isaiah 46:5

  To whom will you liken me and make me equal and compare me, that we may be alike?

• Lamentations 2:13

  What shall I cite as witness for you? What shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you so that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For great as the sea is your shattering; who can heal you?

• Ezekiel 31:2

  “Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his multitude, ‘To whom are you like in your greatness?

• Ezekiel 31:8

  The cedars did not eclipse it in the garden of Elohim; the cypresses did not resemble its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its foliage; no tree in the garden of Elohim resembled it in its beauty.

• Ezekiel 31:18

  To whom are you like, thus, in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? And you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the land below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie, with those slain by the sword. That is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 32:2

  “Son of man, raise a dirge over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘A young lion of the nations you were compared to, and you are like the sea monster in the seas; and you burst forth in your rivers, and muddied the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

• Hosea 12:10

  And I spoke to the prophets, and I multiplied vision, and by the hand of the prophets I gave parables.

And 2 more times.