דָּמָה
dâmâh · daw-maw'
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
- to compare
- by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
The doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּמָה 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
30 occurrences · 30 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- is like3 · 10%
- and be thou like2 · 7%
- to whom then will ye liken2 · 7%
- unto you, as i thought1 · 3%
- and thought1 · 3%
- us, and that devised1 · 3%
- think1 · 3%
- we have thought1 · 3%
- thou thoughtest1 · 3%
- can be likened1 · 3%
- i am like1 · 3%
- i have compared1 · 3%
- and we should have been like1 · 3%
- howbeit he meaneth1 · 3%
- i will be like1 · 3%
- surely as i have thought1 · 3%
- to whom will ye liken1 · 3%
- me, that we may be like1 · 3%
- shall i liken1 · 3%
- whom art thou like1 · 3%
- were not like1 · 3%
- was like1 · 3%
- to whom art thou thus like1 · 3%
- unto him, thou art like1 · 3%
- and used similitudes1 · 3%
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.