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# דָּהַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1724

**astonish** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

astonish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1724/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּהַם: vb. astonish, astound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1724/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. astonish, astound (Arabic دَهِمَ, دَهَمَ )— Pt. כְּאִישׁ נִדְהָם Je 14:9 like a man astounded (‖ כְּגִבּוֹר לֹא יוכל להושׁיע); 𝔊 ὑπνῶν = נִרְדָּם.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: astounded (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 14:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.9/#tree)

לָ֤מָּה תִֽהְיֶה֙ כְּאִ֣ישׁ נִדְהָ֔ם כְּגִבּ֖וֹר לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל לְהוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְאַתָּ֧ה בְקִרְבֵּ֣נוּ יְהוָ֗ה וְשִׁמְךָ֛ עָלֵ֥ינוּ נִקְרָ֖א אַל־תַּנִּחֵֽנוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* why? are.you like a.person astounded like a.warrior \[who\].not he.is.able to save and you \[are\].in midst our O.Yahweh and name your on us it.is.called do.not abandon us

*JPS 1917:* Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet Thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and Thy name is called upon us; leave us not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1724.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1724/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).