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# דּוּמָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1748

**silence** — used 3 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/1491/1748/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דּוּמָם: silence adv. in silence, silently [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1748/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] silence Hb 2:19 אֶבֶן ד׳ stone of silence = dumb stone; adv. in silence, silently, Is 47:5 La 3:26 (? read here וְדָמַס from דמס).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: silence (2); of silence (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.26/#tree)

ט֤וֹב וְיָחִיל֙ וְדוּמָ֔ם לִתְשׁוּעַ֖ת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good and waiting and silence for the.salvation of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* It is good that a man should quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

[Isaiah 47:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.5/#tree)

שְׁבִ֥י דוּמָ֛ם וּבֹ֥אִי בַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ בַּת־כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים כִּ֣י לֹ֤א תוֹסִ֙יפִי֙ יִקְרְאוּ־לָ֔ךְ גְּבֶ֖רֶת מַמְלָכֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* sit silence and go in (the) darkness O.daughter of.\[the\].Chaldeans (dm) not you.will.repeat people.will.call (to) you queen of.kingdoms

*JPS 1917:* Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1748.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1748/): 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).