dama · be silent, perish

What it means

dama (דָּמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be silent, perish”.

To be silent, to cease; hence, to perish, to be destroyed or cut off. In the active form, to destroy.

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 stop being heard or moving; to fall quiet or come to a stop.
2. To vanish completely, be wiped out, or put an end to something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• are destroyed ×3
• destroyed ×3
• I will destroy ×2
• cease ×2
• it was destroyed ×2
• will be utterly destroyed ×2
• I am lost ×1
• has been silenced ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Hosea×5
• Obadiah×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Psalms 49:12

  But man, in his dignity, does not remain; he is like the livestock that are destroyed.

• Psalms 49:20

  Man in dignity, but who does not understand, is like the livestock that are destroyed.

• Isaiah 6:5

  And I said, “Woe to me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell; for the King, YHWH Tsevaot, my eyes have seen.”

• Isaiah 15:1

  The burden of Moab. Because in a night Ar of Moab was devastated, it was destroyed; because in a night Kir of Moab was devastated, it was destroyed.

• Jeremiah 6:2

  The lovely and delicate one, I will destroy the daughter of Zion.

• 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 47:5

  Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been silenced, the remnant of their valley. How long will you gash yourself?

• Lamentations 3:49

  My eye flows and does not cease, without respite,

• Hosea 4:5

  And you will stumble by day, and the prophet also will stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.

• Hosea 4:6

  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being priest to me; and because you have forgotten the law of your Elohim, I also will forget your children.

• Hosea 10:7

  Samaria is destroyed; her king is like foam on the face of the waters.

• Hosea 10:15

  Thus Bethel will do to you because of the evil of your evil; at dawn the king of Israel will be utterly destroyed.

• Obadiah 1:5

  If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night (how you have been destroyed!), would they not steal only what was enough for them? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

• Zephaniah 1:11

  Wail, inhabitants of the Hollow, for all the people of Canaan have been destroyed; all who are laden with silver have been cut off.

And 2 more times.