damesek · Damascus

What it means

damesek (דַּמֶּשֶׂק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Damascus”.

The chief city of Syria.

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.

The place

• Damascus

  Today: Damascus, capital of Syria

  A city in southern Syria, about 135 miles (220 km) northeast of Jerusalem; today it is the capital of Syria.

  David put it under his control (2 Sam 8:6). On the road to Damascus, Jesus appeared to Saul, who was going to persecute believers (Acts 9:3-5).

  Genesis 14:152 Samuel 8:6Isaiah 7:8Acts 9:3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×10
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×5
• Amos×3
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 14:15

  He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

• Genesis 15:2

  But Abram said, “Adonai YHWH, what will you give me, while I go on childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

• 2 Samuel 8:5

  When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of Aram twenty two thousand men.

• 2 Samuel 8:6

  David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and Aram became David’s servants, bearing tribute. And YHWH saved David wherever he went.

• 1 Kings 11:24

  And he gathered men to himself and became chief of a band, when David killed them; and they went to Damascus and lived there, and they reigned in Damascus.

• 1 Kings 15:18

  Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasuries of the house of YHWH and the treasuries of the house of the king, and gave them into the hand of his servants; and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,

• 1 Kings 19:15

  YHWH said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram;

• 1 Kings 20:34

  He said to him, “The cities that my father took from your father I will give back; and you shall set up streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “And I, said Ahab, on this covenant will let you go.” So he made with him a covenant and let him go.

• 2 Kings 5:12

  Are not Amana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” He turned and went away in a rage.

• 2 Kings 8:7

  Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick; and it was told him, saying, “The man of Elohim has come here.”

• 2 Kings 8:9

  Hazael went to meet him and took a gift with him, all kinds of good things of Damascus, forty camel loads; and he came and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I live through this sickness?’”

• 2 Kings 14:28

  The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought, and how he brought back Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

• 2 Kings 16:9

  The king of Assyria listened to him; the king of Assyria went up to Damascus and seized it and carried it into exile to Kir, and Rezin he put to death.

• 2 Kings 16:10

  King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria at Damascus, and he saw the altar that was in Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern, for all its workmanship.

• 2 Kings 16:11

  Uriah the priest built the altar; according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest did, until King Ahaz came from Damascus.

• 2 Kings 16:12

  The king came from Damascus, and the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and offered on it.

• 1 Chronicles 18:5

  When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of Aram twenty-two thousand men.

• 1 Chronicles 18:6

  David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and Aram became David’s servants, bearing tribute. And YHWH saved David wherever he went.

• 2 Chronicles 16:2

  Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of YHWH and of the house of the king, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 24:23

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, that the force of Aram came up against him; they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and all their spoil they sent to the king of Damascus.

• 2 Chronicles 28:5

  YHWH his Elohim gave him into the hand of the king of Aram, and they struck him and took captive from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great blow.

• 2 Chronicles 28:23

  He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had struck him, and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram, they help them, to them I will sacrifice, and they will help me.” But they were for him to make him stumble, and all Israel.

• Song of Songs 7:4

  Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.

• Isaiah 7:8

  For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.

• Isaiah 8:4

  for before the boy knows how to cry, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus will be carried away, and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Assyria.”

• Isaiah 10:9

  Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

• Isaiah 17:1

  The burden of Damascus. Look, Damascus is removed from being a city, and it will be a heap of ruins.

• Isaiah 17:3

  And the fortress will cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the sons of Israel, declares YHWH Tsevaot.

• Jeremiah 49:23

  Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad, for a bad report they have heard; they melt away; in the sea there is anxiety; it cannot be quiet.

• Jeremiah 49:24

  Damascus has grown weak; she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized her; anguish and pangs have taken hold of her like a woman giving birth.

• Jeremiah 49:27

  And I will kindle fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

• Ezekiel 27:18

  Damascus was your merchant in the abundance of your works, because of the abundance of all wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.

• Ezekiel 47:16

  Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.

• Ezekiel 47:17

  And the border shall be from the sea to Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.

• Ezekiel 47:18

  And the east side, from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the border to the eastern sea you shall measure. And this is the east side.

• Ezekiel 48:1

  “And these are the names of the tribes: from the end of the north, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, to the north, beside Hamath, and they shall be his, the side of the east and the sea: Dan, one.

• Amos 1:3

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

• Amos 1:5

  And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir, says YHWH.

• Amos 5:27

  And I will send you into exile beyond Damascus, says YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot is his name.

• Zechariah 9:1

  The burden of the word of YHWH against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is its resting place; for to YHWH is turned the eye of human beings and of all the tribes of Israel.

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