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דָּמַם

damam · be silent, be still

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1826 · appears 30 times in the Bible

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What it means

damam (דָּמַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be silent, be still”.

Stop.

How to say it

da·mam

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 stop speaking or moving; to wait in stillness.
  2. To be destroyed, perish.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • be silent ×8
  • silent ×7
  • will be silenced ×3
  • are silenced ×2
  • be still ×2
  • Keep still ×1
  • be silenced ×1
  • has silenced us ×1
  • quieted ×1
  • silence ×1
  • others ×3

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Where it appears

  • Exodus 15:16

    Terror and dread fell upon them; by the greatness of your arm they were as still as a stone, until your people, YHWH, passed by, until the people whom you acquired passed by.

  • Leviticus 10:3

    Moses said to Aaron, “This is what YHWH spoke, saying, ‘Among those who come near me I will be treated as holy, and before all the people I will be honored.’” And Aaron was silent.

  • Joshua 10:12

    Then Joshua spoke to YHWH on the day when YHWH gave up the Amorite before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the valley of Aijalon.”

  • Joshua 10:13

    And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the book of the Upright? The sun stopped in the middle of the heavens and did not hurry to go down for about a whole day.

  • 1 Samuel 2:9

    The feet of his faithful ones he guards, but the wicked are silenced in darkness; for not by strength does a man prevail.

  • 1 Samuel 14:9

    If they say this to us, ‘Keep still until we reach you,’ then we will stand in our place and not go up to them.

  • Job 29:21

    To me they listened and waited, and kept silent for my counsel.

  • Job 30:27

    My inward parts boil and are not silent; days of affliction have come to meet me.

  • Job 31:34

    because I dreaded the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silent and did not go out of the door…

  • Psalms 4:4

    Tremble and do not sin; speak in your heart on your bed and be silent. Selah.

  • Psalms 30:12

    so that my glory may sing psalms to you and not be silent. YHWH my Elohim, forever I will give you thanks.

  • Psalms 31:17

    YHWH, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on you; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.

  • Psalms 35:15

    But at my stumbling they were glad and gathered; they gathered against me, attackers, and I did not know it; they tore and did not keep silent.

  • Psalms 37:7

    Be silent before YHWH and wait longingly for him; do not get heated because of the one who prospers in his way, because of the man who carries out plans.

  • Psalms 62:5

    Only before Elohim be silent, my soul, for from him comes my hope.

  • Psalms 131:2

    Rather, I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like the weaned child within me is my soul.

  • Isaiah 23:2

    Be silent, inhabitants of the coastland, the merchant of Sidon, crossing the sea, filled you.

  • Jeremiah 8:14

    Why are we sitting still? Gather together, and let us go into the fortified cities and be silent there; for YHWH our Elohim has silenced us and given us to drink water of poison, because we have sinned against YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 25:37

    and the peaceful pastures are silenced before the burning anger of YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 47:6

    Ah, sword of YHWH! How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; rest and be still!

  • Jeremiah 48:2

    There is no more praise for Moab; in Heshbon they have planned evil against her: “Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation.” You too, Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will go after you.

  • Jeremiah 49:26

    Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all the men of war will be silenced in that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot.

  • Jeremiah 50:30

    Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all her men of war will be silenced in that day, declares YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 51:6

    Flee from the midst of Babylon, and save, each one, his life! Do not be silenced in her iniquity, for this is a time of vengeance for YHWH; a recompense he is paying to her.

  • Lamentations 2:10

    They sit on the ground, they are silent, the elders of the daughter of Zion; they have thrown up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; they have bowed to the ground their heads, the virgins of Jerusalem.

  • Lamentations 2:18

    Their heart cried out to Adonai. “Wall of the daughter of Zion, shed tears like a torrent day and night; do not grant yourself relief; do not let the pupil of your eye be still.

  • Lamentations 3:28

    Let him sit alone and be silent, because he has laid it on him.

  • Ezekiel 24:17

    Groan in silence; mourning for the dead you shall not make; your headdress bind on yourself, and your sandals put on your feet, and you shall not cover your mustache, and bread of men you shall not eat.”

  • Amos 5:13

    Therefore the prudent at that time keeps silent, for it is an evil time.

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