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# דּוּמִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1747

**silence** — used 4 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/1491/1747/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דּוּמִיָּה: n.f. silence, still waiting, repose [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1747/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (ψ 65:2) n.f. silence, still waiting, repose—ψ 39:3 silence; 62:2 still waiting, resignation (Dr§ 189. 2; but read prob., as v 6, דֹּמִּי, Bi Gr Che); 65:2 id. (but Ew Che Bä al. דֹּמִיָּה is meet? from I. דָּמָה, 𝔊 πρέπει, v. Che); 22:3 repose (from grief and tears: Je 14:17).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: silence (3); \[is\] silence (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 39:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.3/#tree)

נֶאֱלַ֣מְתִּי ד֭וּמִיָּה הֶחֱשֵׁ֣יתִי מִטּ֑וֹב וּכְאֵבִ֥י נֶעְכָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* I.was.dumb silence I.was.silent from good and pain my it.was.stirred.up

*JPS 1917:* I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort; and my pain was held in check.

[Psalms 62:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.2/#tree)

אַ֣ךְ אֶל־אֱ֭לֹהִים דּֽוּמִיָּ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י מִ֝מֶּ֗נּוּ יְשׁוּעָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* only to God \[is\].silence being my \[is\].from him salvation my

*JPS 1917:* Only for God doth my soul wait in stillness; from Him cometh my salvation.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1747.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1747/): 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).