Damah means “destroy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1820 — exaporeomai in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1820 דָּמָה (damah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. damah (daw-mam') v. 1. to be dumb or silent 2. (hence) to fail or perish It has 13 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include cut, perish, cease, down, and destroy. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
damah (daw-mam') v. 1. to be dumb or silent 2. (hence) to fail or perish 3. trans. to destroy [a primitive root] KJV: cease, be cut down (off), destroy, be brought to silence, be undone, X utterly.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1820. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to cease
Usage: 1) to cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy, perish 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cease 1a2) to cause to cease, destroy 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be undone, be cut off at sight of the theophany
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.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
13 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1820.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1820, grouped by book.
Damah (Strong's H1820) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "destroy". damah (daw-mam') v. 1. to be dumb or silent 2. (hence) to fail or perish
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's H1820 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1820 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cut, perish, cease, down, destroy, and destroyed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
