H1819: דָּמָה
dâmâh · pronounced daw-maw' · “to resemble”
Definition
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
KJV translates it as: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
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)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1819 is translated
- be like ×2
- me ×2
- are you like ×2
- i intended ×1
- they intended ×1
- he planned ×1
- you imagine ×1
- we have reflected on ×1
- you imagined ×1
- is he like? ×1
- i am like ×1
- he is like ×1
Bible verses with H1819 (dâmâh)
Dâmâh appears in 28 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Numbers 33:56
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
- Judges 20:5
And 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 21:5
And 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 4:13
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
- Psalms 48:9
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
- Psalms 50:21
These 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 89:6
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?
- Psalms 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- Song of Solomon 1:9
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
- Song of Solomon 2:9
My 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 Solomon 2:17
Until 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 Solomon 7:7
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
- Song of Solomon 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
- Isaiah 1:9
Except 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 10:7
Howbeit 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 14:14
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
- Isaiah 14:24
The 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 40:18
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
- Isaiah 40:25
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
- Isaiah 46:5
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
- Jeremiah 6:2
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
- Lamentations 2:13
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
- Ezekiel 31:2
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
- Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.