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To tame

δαμάζωStrong’s G1150

damazō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Damazō is the Greek word usually translated “subdue”, “is subdued” and “has been subdued”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.”
Mark 5:4 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “subdue”, “is subdued” and “has been subdued”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • to subdue 2
  • is subdued 1
  • he has been subdued 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • James 2
  • Mark 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

δαμάζω damazō · to tame

δαμάζω [in LXX: Dan.2:40 (חֲשַׁל) * ;] to tame, subdue: Mrk.5:4, Jas.3:7; metaphorically, τ. γλῶσσαν, Jas.3:8 (Field, Notes, 237f.).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “tame” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TAME, adjective

  1. That has lost its native wildness and shyness; mild; accustomed to man; domestic; as a tame deer; a tame bird.
  2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  3. Spiritless; unanimated; as a tame poem. [Not elegant nor in use.
All definitions and other forms of “tame”

    TAME, verb transitive

    [Latin domo; Heb. to be silent, dumb.]

    1. To reclaim; to reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; as, to tame a wild beast.
    2. To civilize; as, to tame the ferocious inhabitants of the forest.
    3. To subdue; to conquer; to depress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
    4. To subdue; to repress; as wildness or licentiousness.“The tongue can no man tame” James 3:8

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.