To silence
דָּמַםStrong’s H1826damam (da-mam)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Damam is the Hebrew word usually translated “still”, “silenced” and “silent”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.”
Meaning
- To be silent, be still, wait, be dumb, grow dumb(Qal) · (Niphal) to be silenced, be made silent, destroyed · (Poal) to make quiet · (Hiphil) to make silent (cause to die)
- Wail
How it's translated
- be still 3
- they will be silenced 3
- be silent 3
- they have become still 1
- and he was silent 1
- and it was still 1
- and they may be silent 1
- they have been still 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 7
- Jeremiah 7
- Job 3
- Lamentations 3
- Joshua 2
- 1 Samuel 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 10:3Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
- Joshua 10:12Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
- Joshua 10:13And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
- 1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
- 1 Samuel 14:9If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
- Job 29:21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּמַם damam · to silence
: stationary 1) to be silent, be still, wait, be dumb, grow dumb 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be silent 1a2) to be still, die 1a3) to be struck dumb 1b) (Niphal) to be silenced, be made silent, destroyed 1c) (Poal) to make quiet 1d) (Hiphil) to make silent (cause to die)
דָּמַם damam · to wail
wail
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “silence” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SI'LENCE, noun
[Latin silentium, from sileo, to be still.]
- In a general sense, stillness, or entire absence of sound or noise; as the silence of midnight.
- In animals, the state of holding the peace; forbearance of speech in man, or of noise in other animals. Psalms 39:2“I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good” Psalms 39:2
- Habitual taciturnity; opposed to loquacity.
- Secrecy.
All definitions and other forms of “silence”
- Stillness; calmness; quiet; cessation of rage, agitation or tumult; as the elements reduced to silence
- Absence of mention; oblivion, Eternal silence be their doom.
- silence in used elliptically for let there be silence an injunction to keep silence
SI'LENCE, verb transitive
- To oblige to hold the peace; to restrain from noise or speaking.
- To still; to quiet; to restrain; to appease.
- To stop; as, to silence complaints or clamor.
- To still; to cause to cease firing; as, to silence guns or a battery.
- To restrain from preaching by revoking a license to preach; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
- To put an end to; to cause to cease.
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.