דִּמְעָה
dimʻâh · dim-aw'
weeping
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H1831 (דֶּמַע);
weeping
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: tears.
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
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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 see and know › to reveal, behold
The doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דִּמְעָה 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
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- with tears5 · 22%
- thy tears2 · 9%
- of tears2 · 9%
- from tears2 · 9%
- with my tears1 · 4%
- at my tears1 · 4%
- my tears1 · 4%
- thou my tears1 · 4%
- and givest them tears1 · 4%
- in tears1 · 4%
- and behold the tears1 · 4%
- thee with my tears1 · 4%
- tears1 · 4%
- and her tears1 · 4%
- let tears1 · 4%
- neither shall thy tears1 · 4%
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.