דְּמָמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1827

whisper — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

whisper tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּמָמָה: n.f. whisper tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. (silence) whisper (on format. cf. BaNB 87)—וְאַחַר הָאֵשׁ קוֹל דְּמָמָה דַקָּ֑ה 1 K 19:12; דְּמָמָה וָקוֹל אֶשְׁמָ֑ע Jb 4:16 a whisper and a voice, i.e. an articulate whisper (cf. Di); יָקֵם סְעָרָה לִדְמָמָ֑ה ψ 107:29 he settleth storm into whisper.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a whisper (2); of a whisper (1).

In the verses

Psalms 107:29 · tree →

יָקֵ֣ם סְ֭עָרָה לִדְמָמָ֑ה וַ֝יֶּחֱשׁ֗וּ גַּלֵּיהֶֽם׃

Word for word: he.raised [the].storm into a.whisper and they.were.still waves their

JPS 1917: He made the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof were still.

Job 4:16 · tree →

יַעֲמֹ֤ד ׀ וְֽלֹא־אַכִּ֬יר מַרְאֵ֗הוּ תְּ֭מוּנָה לְנֶ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י דְּמָמָ֖ה וָק֣וֹל אֶשְׁמָֽע׃

Word for word: it.stood.still and not I.recognized appearance its a.form [was].to before eyes my a.whisper and a.voice I.heard

JPS 1917: It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; I heard a still voice:

On Mova

This word in the Tanakh dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/דממה/