דְּמָמָה
demama · silence, calm
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1827 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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demama (דְּמָמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “silence, calm”.
Stillness; like the calm that remains when a storm passes (Psalm 107:29).
How to say it
de·ma·ma
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
- Complete stillness, without noise.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- silence ×2
- calm ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 19:12
And after the earthquake, a fire; YHWH was not in the fire. And after the fire, a sound of thin silence.
- Job 4:16
It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a figure was before my eyes; silence, and I heard a voice:
- Psalms 107:29
He made the storm a calm, and their waves were hushed.