Damah means “compare” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1819 — exapina (“suddenly”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1819 דָּמָה (damah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. damah (daw-maw') v. 1. to compare 2. (by implication) to resemble, liken, consider It has 28 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include like, likened, compare, liken, and think. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
damah (daw-maw') v. 1. to compare 2. (by implication) to resemble, liken, consider [a primitive root] KJV: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1819. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to resemble
Usage: 1) to be like, resemble 1a) (Qal) to be like, resemble 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to liken, compare 1b2) to imagine, think 1c) (Hithpael) to make oneself like 1d) (Niphal) Aramaic equivalent: de.mah (דְּמָה "be like" H1821)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render damah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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28 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1819.
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1819, grouped by book.
Damah (Strong's H1819) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "compare". damah (daw-maw') v. 1. to compare 2. (by implication) to resemble, liken, consider
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's H1819 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1819 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as like, likened, compare, liken, think, and meaneth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.