דֹּמֶן
dômen · do'-men
manure
Lexicon
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
manure
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dung.
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
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing
The doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דֹּמֶן 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
6 occurrences · 6 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall be as dung1 · 17%
- they became as dung1 · 17%
- they shall be for dung1 · 17%
- as dung1 · 17%
- but they shall be as dung1 · 17%
- they shall be dung1 · 17%
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.