damah (to cease) · Rightly

Meaning

To cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy, perish(Qal) · (Niphal)

How it's translated

they are destroyed 2
it was destroyed 2
i am destroyed 1
they cease 1
it will be silent 1
it will cease 1
and i will destroy 1
they have been destroyed 1

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

Where it's used most

Hosea 4
Psalms 2
Isaiah 2
Jeremiah 2
Lamentations 1
Obadiah 1

7 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Psalms 49:20Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Isaiah 6:5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 15:1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
Jeremiah 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Jeremiah 47:5Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Lamentations 3:49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

All 13 verses, by book

Psalms 2: 49:12 49:20
Isaiah 2: 6:5 15:1
Jeremiah 2: 14:17 47:5
Lamentations 1: 3:49
Hosea 4: 4:5 4:6 10:7 10:15
Obadiah 1: 1:5
Zephaniah 1: 1:11

Hebrew dictionary

דָּמָה damah · to cease

1) to cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy, perish 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cease 1a2) to cause to cease, destroy 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be undone, be cut off at sight of the theophany

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

CEASE, verb intransitive

To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.“It is an honor for a man to cease from strife” Proverbs 20:3
To fail; to be wanting.“The poor shall never cease out of the land” Deuteronomy 15:11
To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
To be forgotten.“I would make the remembrance of them to cease” Deuteronomy 32:26

All definitions and other forms of “cease”

To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalms 37:8

CEASE, verb transitive

To put a stop to; to put an end to. cease this impious rage. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical, ]

CEASE, noun

Extinction.

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