dima · tears, weeping

What it means

dima (דִּמְעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tears, weeping”.

In 2 Kings 20:5 YHWH says to Hezekiah: "I have seen your tears." Frequent in the Psalms and in Jeremiah (Psalm 56:8; Jeremiah 9:1).

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. The water that falls from the eyes in suffering or pleading.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×8
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Malachi×1

• 2 Kings 20:5

  “Go back and say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of YHWH.

• Psalms 6:6

  I am weary with my groaning; every night I flood my bed; with my tears I soak my couch.

• Psalms 39:12

  Hear my prayer, YHWH, and to my cry for help give ear; to my tears do not be deaf, for a resident alien I am with you, a temporary resident like all my fathers.

• Psalms 42:3

  My tears have been bread for me day and night, while they say to me all the day, “Where is your Elohim?”

• Psalms 56:8

  My wandering you yourself have counted; put my tears in your skin bottle; are they not in your book?

• Psalms 80:5

  You have fed them the bread of tears, and given them to drink tears in great measure.

• Psalms 116:8

  For you have rescued my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

• Psalms 126:5

  Those who sow with tears with shouts of joy will reap.

• Ecclesiastes 4:1

  And I turned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and look, the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and from the hand of their oppressors there is power, and they have no comforter.

• Isaiah 16:9

  Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; for on your summer fruit and on your harvest the shout has fallen.

• Isaiah 25:8

  He will swallow up death forever, and Adonai YHWH will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will remove from all the earth, for YHWH has spoken.

• Isaiah 38:5

  “Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am adding to your days fifteen years.

• Jeremiah 9:1

  Oh that my head were water and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

• Jeremiah 9:18

  and let them hurry and raise over us a wailing, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

• Jeremiah 13:17

  But if you do not hear it, in secret places my soul will weep because of pride, and will weep bitterly, and my eye will run down with tears, for the flock of YHWH has been taken captive.

• Jeremiah 14:17

  And you will say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for with a great breaking has been broken the virgin daughter of my people, a wound incurable, very grievous.

• Jeremiah 31:16

  Thus says YHWH: “Keep back your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for there is a wage for your work, declares YHWH, and they will return from the land of the enemy.

• Lamentations 1:2

  She weeps and weeps in the night, and her tears are on her cheek; she has no one to comfort her among all her lovers; all her friends have betrayed her; they have become enemies.

• Lamentations 2:11

  My eyes are spent with tears; my insides are in turmoil; my liver is poured out on the ground because of the shattering of the daughter of my people, when child and nursing infant faint in the squares of the city.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 24:16

  “Son of man, look, I am taking from you the delight of your eyes with a plague; and you shall not lament, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come.

• Malachi 2:13

  And this a second thing you do: cover the altar of YHWH with tears, with weeping and groaning, because he no longer turns to the offering or takes it with favor from your hand.

And 1 more times.