Strong G1150δαμάζω
to tame
- Transliteration
- damazō
- Pronunciation
- dam-ad'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A variation of an obsolete primary of the same meaning; to tame: - tame.
Detailed definition
δαμάζω
[in LXX: Dan.2:40 (חֲשַׁל) *;]
to tame, subdue: Mrk.5:4, Jas.3:7; metaphorically, τ. γλῶσσαν, Jas.3:8 (Field, Notes, 237f.).†
(AS)
[in LXX: Dan.2:40 (חֲשַׁל) *;]
to tame, subdue: Mrk.5:4, Jas.3:7; metaphorically, τ. γλῶσσαν, Jas.3:8 (Field, Notes, 237f.).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1150 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- tame3
First verses
- Mark 5:4Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
- James 3:7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
- James 3:8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
δαμάζω
[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 324 (Lyric poetry))], etc.: future δαμάσω [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 6.329 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus))]; Epic dialect δαμάσσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.176, also δαμᾷ, δαμάᾳ, 1.61, 22.271)]; 3rd.pers. plural δαμόωσι [Refs (6.368 (see. δαμάω))]: aorist 1 ἐδάμᾰσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.90)] (participle δαμάσσαις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“O.” 9.92), _Epic dialect_ ἐδάμασσα, δάμασσα, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.191, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.367)]: perfect δεδάμακα [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes “Flor.Monac.” 82)]:—middle, future Epic dialect δαμάσσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.226:)]aorist ἐδαμάσσατο, δαμάσαντο, δαμασσάμενος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.516, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.210, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.454)]; aorist 1 optative δαμάσαιτο [Refs (“Leg.Gort.” 2.11)]: aorist 2 optative δάμοιτο [Refs (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4000.18 (from Iconium))]:—passive, future 3 δεδμήσομαι [Refs (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 543; irregular δαμοῦμαι “PMag.Par.” 1.2906)]: aorist ἐδαμάσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.231, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.20, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 279 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 563)]; Epic dialect δαμάσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.9, compare 16.816)]; ἐδμήθην, imperative δμηθήτω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (9.158, δμηθείς 4.99, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 1000)], Doric dialect δμᾱθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 907 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus (Lyric poetry, see below), 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 7.1: ἐδάμην [ᾰ] 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.812, 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 7.1, etc.)]; Epic dialect δάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.90)]; 3rd.pers. plural δάμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.344)]; Epic dialect subjunctive δαμείω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.54, 2)] and 3rd.pers. singular δαμήῃς -ήῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.436, 22.246)], 2nd pers. plural δαμήετε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (7.72; _optative_ δαμείην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.301, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 648)]; infinitive δαμῆναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.522, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 368 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 200)], Epic dialect infinitive δᾰμήμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.312)]; participle δαμείς [Refs 7th c.BC+ (22.40, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 90, etc.)] (only form of aorist used by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, and preferred by 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus and 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus))]: perfect δέδμημαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.878)], etc., -ημένος [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (14.482, etc.; later δεδαμασμένος 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 29, “epigram Gr.” 550.9)]: pluperfect δέδμητο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.305)]; 3rd.pers. plural -ήατο[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.183.—poetical Verb, used by 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus)] in present participle δαμάζων [Refs (“Mem.” 4.3.10:)]aorist passive δαμασθεῖεν[Refs ([prev. work] 4.1.3)]; also infinitive δαμασθῆναι is falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.4)]:—overpower:
I of animals, tame, break in, twice in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], in middle, ἡμίονον.. ἥτ᾽ ἀλγίστη δαμάσασθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.655; τῶν κέν τιν᾽.. δαμασαίμην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.637)]:—later in active, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.3.10:)] —passive [Refs (, [prev. work] 4.1.3.)]
I.2 of metals, work, σίδαρον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 980 (Lyric poetry))]; of land, clear, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PSI” 4.316 (iv(?) 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus).)]
II of maidens, make subject to a husband, ἀνδρὶ δάμασσεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.432)]:—middle, force, seduce, [Refs (Leges Gortynensium)] [same place]:—passive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.301, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.269.)]
III subdue, conquer, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.59, +others; βίῃ καὶ χερσὶ δ. 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 490)]:—passive, to be subject to another, σοί τ᾽ ἐπιπείθονται καὶ δεδμήμεσθα ἕκαστος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.878; δέδμητο δὲ λαὸς ὑπ᾽ αὐτῷ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.305.)]
III.b of the gods, bring low, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.118, 16.845, +others)]
III.c subdue, gain the mastery over, ἐπιθυμίαν Stob. [prev. cited]
III.2 lay low, kill, especially in fight, εἴ χ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἐμοί γε θεὸς δαμάσῃ μνηστῆρας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.213)]:—passive, ὑπ᾽ ἐμοὶ δμηθέντα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.646; ὑπὸ δουρὶ δαμέντα [prev. work] 653.)]
III.3 of the powers of nature, etc., overcome, overpower, ἔρος.. θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν... ἐδάμασσεν [Refs (14.316)]:—middle, δαμασσάμενος φρένας οἴνῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.454, compare 516)]:—passive, to be overcome, αἴθρῳ καὶ καμάτῳ δεδμημένον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (14.318; μαλακῷ δεδμημένοι ὕπνῳ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.2; ὕπνῳ καὶ φιλότητι δαμείς 14.353; ἁλὶ δέδμητο φίλον κῆρ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.454, compare 8.231; δμαθέντες)]dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 127 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV ἀγῶνα δαμάσσαι ἔργῳ win it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.80.)]
V οὐ μήποτε τοῦτο δαμῇ, εἶναι μὴ ἐόντα it shall never be proved that.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 7.1.)] (δᾰμᾰ-: δμη- underlies δάμνημι, ἐδάμα(σ)σα, δέδμημα; δαμάζω is a post-Homeric form of present; cf. Sanskrit dā´myati 'to be tamed', damitar- 'tamer', etc.)
[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 324 (Lyric poetry))], etc.: future δαμάσω [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 6.329 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus))]; Epic dialect δαμάσσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.176, also δαμᾷ, δαμάᾳ, 1.61, 22.271)]; 3rd.pers. plural δαμόωσι [Refs (6.368 (see. δαμάω))]: aorist 1 ἐδάμᾰσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.90)] (participle δαμάσσαις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“O.” 9.92), _Epic dialect_ ἐδάμασσα, δάμασσα, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.191, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.367)]: perfect δεδάμακα [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes “Flor.Monac.” 82)]:—middle, future Epic dialect δαμάσσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.226:)]aorist ἐδαμάσσατο, δαμάσαντο, δαμασσάμενος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.516, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.210, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.454)]; aorist 1 optative δαμάσαιτο [Refs (“Leg.Gort.” 2.11)]: aorist 2 optative δάμοιτο [Refs (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4000.18 (from Iconium))]:—passive, future 3 δεδμήσομαι [Refs (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 543; irregular δαμοῦμαι “PMag.Par.” 1.2906)]: aorist ἐδαμάσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.231, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.20, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 279 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 563)]; Epic dialect δαμάσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.9, compare 16.816)]; ἐδμήθην, imperative δμηθήτω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (9.158, δμηθείς 4.99, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 1000)], Doric dialect δμᾱθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 907 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus (Lyric poetry, see below), 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 7.1: ἐδάμην [ᾰ] 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.812, 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 7.1, etc.)]; Epic dialect δάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.90)]; 3rd.pers. plural δάμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.344)]; Epic dialect subjunctive δαμείω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.54, 2)] and 3rd.pers. singular δαμήῃς -ήῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.436, 22.246)], 2nd pers. plural δαμήετε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (7.72; _optative_ δαμείην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.301, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 648)]; infinitive δαμῆναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.522, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 368 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 200)], Epic dialect infinitive δᾰμήμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.312)]; participle δαμείς [Refs 7th c.BC+ (22.40, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 90, etc.)] (only form of aorist used by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, and preferred by 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus and 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus))]: perfect δέδμημαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.878)], etc., -ημένος [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (14.482, etc.; later δεδαμασμένος 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 29, “epigram Gr.” 550.9)]: pluperfect δέδμητο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.305)]; 3rd.pers. plural -ήατο[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.183.—poetical Verb, used by 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus)] in present participle δαμάζων [Refs (“Mem.” 4.3.10:)]aorist passive δαμασθεῖεν[Refs ([prev. work] 4.1.3)]; also infinitive δαμασθῆναι is falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.4)]:—overpower:
I of animals, tame, break in, twice in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], in middle, ἡμίονον.. ἥτ᾽ ἀλγίστη δαμάσασθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.655; τῶν κέν τιν᾽.. δαμασαίμην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.637)]:—later in active, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.3.10:)] —passive [Refs (, [prev. work] 4.1.3.)]
I.2 of metals, work, σίδαρον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 980 (Lyric poetry))]; of land, clear, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PSI” 4.316 (iv(?) 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus).)]
II of maidens, make subject to a husband, ἀνδρὶ δάμασσεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.432)]:—middle, force, seduce, [Refs (Leges Gortynensium)] [same place]:—passive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.301, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.269.)]
III subdue, conquer, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.59, +others; βίῃ καὶ χερσὶ δ. 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 490)]:—passive, to be subject to another, σοί τ᾽ ἐπιπείθονται καὶ δεδμήμεσθα ἕκαστος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.878; δέδμητο δὲ λαὸς ὑπ᾽ αὐτῷ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.305.)]
III.b of the gods, bring low, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.118, 16.845, +others)]
III.c subdue, gain the mastery over, ἐπιθυμίαν Stob. [prev. cited]
III.2 lay low, kill, especially in fight, εἴ χ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἐμοί γε θεὸς δαμάσῃ μνηστῆρας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.213)]:—passive, ὑπ᾽ ἐμοὶ δμηθέντα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.646; ὑπὸ δουρὶ δαμέντα [prev. work] 653.)]
III.3 of the powers of nature, etc., overcome, overpower, ἔρος.. θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν... ἐδάμασσεν [Refs (14.316)]:—middle, δαμασσάμενος φρένας οἴνῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.454, compare 516)]:—passive, to be overcome, αἴθρῳ καὶ καμάτῳ δεδμημένον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (14.318; μαλακῷ δεδμημένοι ὕπνῳ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.2; ὕπνῳ καὶ φιλότητι δαμείς 14.353; ἁλὶ δέδμητο φίλον κῆρ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.454, compare 8.231; δμαθέντες)]dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 127 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV ἀγῶνα δαμάσσαι ἔργῳ win it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.80.)]
V οὐ μήποτε τοῦτο δαμῇ, εἶναι μὴ ἐόντα it shall never be proved that.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 7.1.)] (δᾰμᾰ-: δμη- underlies δάμνημι, ἐδάμα(σ)σα, δέδμημα; δαμάζω is a post-Homeric form of present; cf. Sanskrit dā´myati 'to be tamed', damitar- 'tamer', etc.)