דְּמִי
dᵉmîy · dem-ee'
quiet
Lexicon
Derivation: or דֳּמִי; from H1820 (דָּמָה);
quiet
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cutting off, rest, silence.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the hand that works
The doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דְּמִי 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
4 occurrences · 4 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- keep not thou silence1 · 25%
- in the cutting off1 · 25%
- keep not silence1 · 25%
- him no rest1 · 25%
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.