דָּם
dâm · dawm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1826 (דָּמַם) (compare H119 (אָדַם));
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
- blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal
- by analogy, the juice of the grape
- figuratively, (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep
The doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
360 occurrences · 360 OT · 0 NT · 184 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- blood54 · 21%
- the blood43 · 17%
- of the blood24 · 9%
- of blood18 · 7%
- his blood16 · 6%
- and the blood11 · 4%
- their blood9 · 4%
- in the blood9 · 4%
- with blood9 · 4%
- with the blood8 · 3%
- and blood8 · 3%
- all the blood5 · 2%
- of her blood5 · 2%
- thy blood4 · 2%
- some of the blood4 · 2%
- in thy blood4 · 2%
- but his blood4 · 2%
- for blood4 · 2%
- to the bloody3 · 1%
- into blood3 · 1%
- with their blood3 · 1%
- unto him the blood2 · 1%
- out the blood2 · 1%
- and of the blood2 · 1%
- to blood2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.