[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%94-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ד](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/dalet/)‎ / דּוּמָה‎

# דּוּמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1745

**silence** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

silence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1745/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דּוּמָה: n.f. silence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1745/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. silence;—ד׳ = שְׁאוֹל ψ 94:17, יֹרְדֵי ד׳ ψ 115:17; also Is 21:11 מַשָּׂא דּוּמָה oracle of silence, i.e. of concealment, hidden meaning, according to Ew Di, but v. ii. ד׳, 3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 115:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.17/#tree)

לֹ֣א הַ֭מֵּתִים יְהַֽלְלוּ־יָ֑הּ וְ֝לֹ֗א כָּל־יֹרְדֵ֥י דוּמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* not the.dead \[people\] they.will.praise Yahweh and not all \[those.who\].go.down of.silence

*JPS 1917:* The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence;

[Psalms 94:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.94.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.94.17/#tree)

לוּלֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה עֶזְרָ֣תָה לִּ֑י כִּמְעַ֓ט ׀ שָֽׁכְנָ֖ה דוּמָ֣ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* if.not Yahweh been\].(to).a.help \[had to me like a.little it.dwelt silence self my

*JPS 1917:* Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had soon dwelt in silence.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1745/): 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).