To resemble
דָּמָהStrong’s H1819damah (da-mah)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Damah is the Hebrew word usually translated “liken me”, “are you like” and “intended”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.”
Meaning
- To be like, resemble(Qal) to be like, resemble · (Piel) · (Hithpael) to make oneself like · (Niphal)
How it's translated
- will you liken me 2
- are you like 2
- i intended 1
- they intended 1
- he planned 1
- you imagine 1
- we have reflected on 1
- you imagined 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 7
- Psalms 5
- Song of Solomon 5
- Ezekiel 4
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 20:5And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
- 2 Samuel 21:5And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
- Esther 4:13Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
- Psalms 48:9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
- Psalms 50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
- Psalms 89:6For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Hebrew dictionary
דָּמָה damah · to resemble
1) to be like, resemble 1a) (Qal) to be like, resemble 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to liken, compare 1b2) to imagine, think 1c) (Hithpael) to make oneself like 1d) (Niphal) Aramaic equivalent: de.mah (דְּמָה "be like" H1821)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “resemble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RESEM'BLE, verb transitive
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- To have the likeness of; to bear the similitude of something, either in form, figure or qualities.“Each one resembled the children of a king” Judges 8:18
- To liken; to compare; to represent as like something else.
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.