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Strong's H1834 דַּמֶּשֶׂק (dammeseq)

Dammeseq means “Damascus” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1834 — exegeomai (“declare”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1834
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 40
Books 12

Strong's H1834 Quick Answer

Strong's H1834 דַּמֶּשֶׂק דּוּמֶשֶׂק דַּרמֶשֶׂק (Dammeseq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Dammeseq (dam-meh'-sek) (or Duwmeseq {doo-meh'-sek} or Darmeseq {dar-meh'-sek};) n/l. 1. Damascus, a city of Syria [of foreign origin] It has 40 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include damascus. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Dammeseq (dam-meh'-sek) (or Duwmeseq {doo-meh'-sek} or Darmeseq {dar-meh'-sek};) n/l. 1. Damascus, a city of Syria [of foreign origin]
Usage
40 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
damascus

Meaning and Definition

Dammeseq (dam-meh'-sek) (or Duwmeseq {doo-meh'-sek} or Darmeseq {dar-meh'-sek};) n/l. 1. Damascus, a city of Syria [of foreign origin] KJV: Damascus.

Original Word
דַּמֶּשֶׂק דּוּמֶשֶׂק דַּרמֶשֶׂק
Transliteration
Dammeseq
Morphology
Name/l.

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1834. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Damascus

Usage: § Damascus = "silent is the sackcloth weaver" an ancient trading city, capital of Syria, located in the plain east of Hermon, 130 (205 km) miles northeast of Jerusalem

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How Strong's H1834 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Dammeseq, 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.

Damascus Genesis 14:15 39×

How Strong's H1834 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 40 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1834 by Corpus

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.

Strong's H1834 in the Old Testament

40 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 14:15 KJV

And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

Genesis 15:2 KJV

And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

2 Samuel 8:5 KJV

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

Usage Excerpts

First 40 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1834.

Genesis 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Genesis 15:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
2 Samuel 8:5 Old Testament, KJV
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel 8:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
1 Kings 11:24 Old Testament, KJV
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
1 Kings 15:18 Old Testament, KJV
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
1 Kings 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
1 Kings 20:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
2 Kings 5:12 Old Testament, KJV
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
2 Kings 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
2 Kings 8:9 Old Testament, KJV
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2 Kings 14:28 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 16:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2 Kings 16:10 Old Testament, KJV
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
2 Kings 16:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
2 Kings 16:12 Old Testament, KJV
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
1 Chronicles 18:5 Old Testament, KJV
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
1 Chronicles 18:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
2 Chronicles 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
2 Chronicles 24:23 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
2 Chronicles 28:5 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
2 Chronicles 28:23 Old Testament, KJV
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
Song of Solomon 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Isaiah 7:8 Old Testament, KJV
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Isaiah 8:4 Old Testament, KJV
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isaiah 17:1 Old Testament, KJV
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Isaiah 17:3 Old Testament, KJV
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 49:23 Old Testament, KJV
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Jeremiah 49:24 Old Testament, KJV
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 49:27 Old Testament, KJV
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
Ezekiel 27:18 Old Testament, KJV
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
Ezekiel 47:16 Old Testament, KJV
Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
Ezekiel 47:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
Ezekiel 47:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
Ezekiel 48:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
Amos 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Amos 5:27 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Zechariah 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1834, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 8 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Old Testament
Amos 3 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1834 FAQ

What does dammeseq (דַּמֶּשֶׂק) mean?

Dammeseq (Strong's H1834) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Damascus". Dammeseq (dam-meh'-sek) (or Duwmeseq {doo-meh'-sek} or Darmeseq {dar-meh'-sek};) n/l. 1. Damascus, a city of Syria [of foreign origin]

How many times is dammeseq (דַּמֶּשֶׂק) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 40 linked usages for Strong's H1834 across 12 books.

Where can I study dammeseq (דַּמֶּשֶׂק) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1834 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate dammeseq (דַּמֶּשֶׂק)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as damascus. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.