Strong H1819דָּמָה
to resemble
- Transliteration
- dâmâh
- Pronunciation
- daw-maw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to compare; by implication to {resemble} {liken } consider: - {compare} {devise} (be) like ({-n}) {mean} {think} use similitudes.
Detailed definition
1) to be like, resemble
1a) (Qal) to be like, resemble
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to liken, compare
1b2) to imagine, think
1c) (Hithpael) to make oneself like
1d) (Niphal)
Aramaic equivalent: de.mah (דְּמָה "be like" H1821)
1a) (Qal) to be like, resemble
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to liken, compare
1b2) to imagine, think
1c) (Hithpael) to make oneself like
1d) (Niphal)
Aramaic equivalent: de.mah (דְּמָה "be like" H1821)
In the Bible
Strong H1819 appears in 27 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- be5
- liken5
- think5
- thou4
- like3
- art1
- compare1
- devise1
- meaneth1
- should1
- use1
First verses
- Numbers 33:56Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
- Judges 20:5And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
- 2 Samuel 21:5And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
- Esther 4:13Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
- Psalms 48:9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
- Psalms 50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
- Psalms 89:6For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?
- Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- Song of Songs 1:9I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
- Song of Songs 2:9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
- Song of Songs 2:17Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
- Song of Songs 7:7This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
- Song of Songs 8:14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
- Isaiah 1:9Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 10:7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
- Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
- Isaiah 14:24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
- Isaiah 40:18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
- Isaiah 40:25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.