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Blood

דָּםStrong’s H1818

dam

Appears in 295 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Dam is the Hebrew word usually translated “blood”, “blood of” and “blood its”. It appears in 295 verses of the Old Testament.

“And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.”
Zechariah 9:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Bloodof wine (fig.)
How it's translated
  • blood 90
  • the blood 50
  • blood of 41
  • blood its 22
  • and blood 16
  • blood their 13
  • blood his 12
  • some of blood of 11

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

Where it's used most
  • Leviticus 66
  • Ezekiel 47
  • Exodus 22
  • Psalms 19
  • Deuteronomy 17
  • Isaiah 14

28 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 295 verses, by book
Judges 1
9:24
1 Chronicles 3
11:1922:828:3
Lamentations 2
4:134:14
Jonah 1
1:14
Micah 2
3:107:2
Nahum 1
3:1
Habakkuk 3
2:82:122:17
Zephaniah 1
1:17
Zechariah 2
9:79:11
Hebrew dictionary

דָּם dam · blood

1) blood 1a) of wine (fig.)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

BLOOD, noun

  1. The fluid which circulates through the arteries and veins of the human body, and of other animals, which is essential to the preservation of life.
  2. Kindred; relation by natural descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity.“God hath made of one blood all nations of the earth” Acts 17:26
  3. Royal lineage; blood royal; as a prince of the blood
  4. Honorable birth; high extraction; as a gentleman of blood
All definitions and other forms of “blood”
  1. Life.“Shall I not require his blood at your hands?” 2 Samuel 4:11
  2. Slaughter; murder, or bloodshedding.“The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground” Genesis 4:10
  3. Guilt, and punishment.“Your blood be upon your own heads” Acts 18:6
  4. Fleshly nature;; the carnal part of man; as opposed to spiritual nature, or divine life.“Who were born, not of flesh and blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” John 1:13
  5. Man, or human wisdom, or reason.“Flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven” Matthew 16:17
  6. A sacramental symbol of the blood of Christ.“This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for the remission of sins” Matthew 26:28
  7. The death and sufferings of Christ.“Being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him” Romans 5:9
  8. The price of blood; that which is obtained by shedding blood and seizing goods.“Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood Acts 1” Habakkuk 2:12
  9. Temper of mind; state of the passions; but in this sense, accompanied with cold or warm, or other qualifying word.
  10. A hot spark; a man of fire or spirit; a rake.
  11. The juice of any thing, especially if red; as, 'the blood of grapes.' 9. Genesis 4:10

BLOOD, verb transitive

To let blood; to bleed by opening a vein.

  1. To stain with blood
  2. To enter; to inure to blood; as a hound.
  3. To heat the blood; to exasperate. [Unusual.]

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.