Damascus
דַּמֶּ֫שֶׂקStrong’s H1834dammeseq (dam-me-seq)
Appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dammeseq is the Hebrew word usually translated “damascus”, “from damascus” and “like damascus”. It appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament.
“The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.”
Meaning
- § Damascus = "silent is the sackcloth weaver"
How it's translated
- damascus 32
- in damascus 5
- from damascus 4
- of damascus 2
- like damascus 1
- and damascus 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 8
- Isaiah 5
- Ezekiel 5
- 1 Kings 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Jeremiah 3
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 14:15And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
- Genesis 15:2And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
- 2 Samuel 8:5And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 8:6Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
- 1 Kings 11:24And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
- 1 Kings 15:18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
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Hebrew dictionary
דַּמֶּ֫שֶׂק dammeseq · Damascus
§ Damascus = "silent is the sackcloth weaver" an ancient trading city, capital of Syria, located in the plain east of Hermon, 130 (205 km) miles northeast of Jerusalem
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.