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# דּוּמֶּשֶׂק

Biblical Hebrew

**Damascus** — 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

Damascus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5bc_5d5_5bc_5de_5b6_5bc_5e9_5b6_5c2_5e7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** 2 K 16:10 cf. דַּמֶּשֶׂק.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 16:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.10/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אָחָ֡ז לִ֠קְרַאת תִּגְלַ֨ת פִּלְאֶ֤סֶר תִּגְלַ֨ת פִּלְאֶ֤סֶר מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁוּר֙ דּוּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וַיַּ֥רְא אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּדַמָּ֑שֶׂק וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אָחָ֜ז אֶל־אוּרִיָּ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן אֶת־דְּמ֧וּת הַמִּזְבֵּ֛חַ וְאֶת־תַּבְנִית֖וֹ לְכָֽל־מַעֲשֵֽׂהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went the king Ahaz to meet Tiglath-pileser Tiglath-pileser the.king of.Assyria Damascus and he.saw (et) the altar which \[was\].in Damascus and he.sent the king Ahaz to Uriah the priest (et) the.likeness of the.altar and (et) pattern its for all work its

*JPS 1917:* And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5bc_5d5_5bc_5de_5b6_5bc_5e9_5b6_5c2_5e7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5bc_5d5_5bc_5de_5b6_5bc_5e9_5b6_5c2_5e7/): 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).