Tears
דִּמְעָהStrong’s H1832dimah (dim-ah)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dimah is the Hebrew word usually translated “tear”, “tear my” and “tear your”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.”
Meaning
- Tears
How it's translated
- tear 9
- tear my 4
- tear your 3
- with tear my 1
- tears 1
- with tear 1
- tear of 1
- from tear 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 7
- Jeremiah 5
- Isaiah 3
- Lamentations 3
- 2 Kings 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- Psalms 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
- Psalms 56:8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
- Psalms 80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
- Psalms 116:8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Hebrew dictionary
דִּמְעָה dimah · tears
tears
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEAR, noun
- Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.
All definitions and other forms of “tear”
TEAR, verb transitive
[Latin tero.]
- To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh.
- To wound; to lacerate.
- To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.
- To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.
- To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
- To remove by violence; to break up.
- To make a violent rent.
TEAR, verb intransitive
To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.
TEAR, noun
A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]
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.