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# דֳּמִי

Biblical Hebrew

**cessation** — 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

cessation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b3_5bc_5de_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֳּמִי: cessation, pause, quiet, rest; [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b3_5bc_5de_5b4_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] cessation, pause, quiet, rest; ד׳ Is 62:6 + 2 times; cstr. דְּמִי Is 38:10 (but v. infr.);— quiet, in phr. אַל־ד׳ לָכֶם Is 62:6 keep not quiet (let there be no quiet to you); in prayer to God אַל־ד׳ לָךְ ψ 83:2 keep not quiet (inactive; ‖ חרשׂ, שׁקט); cf. וְאַל־תִּתְּנוּ ד׳ לוֹ Is 62:7 and give no rest to him (י׳). in phr. בִּדְמִי יָמַי, Is 38:10 appar. quiet, peacefulness, even tenour, of my days (so De Or SS); others, as Hi Ew Che Di, pause, resting-time, i.e. noon-day (cf. 𝔖 𝔙, & height 𝔊), fig. of middle life, but usage dub.; KloSK 1884, 157 cessation, pause, of natural end of life, Hezekiah’s natural expectation, in contrast with the speedy death implied in v b; but parallelism of v 11a is ag. this; Brd emends בְּרֻם after 𝔊; Klol.c. suggests בְּתֹם or כְּתֹם but preferably in the half, i.e. the midst of my days from דָּמָה aequavit (Dathe).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: the half (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 38:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.10/#tree)

אֲנִ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי בִּדְמִ֥י יָמַ֛י אֵלֵ֖כָה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י שְׁא֑וֹל פֻּקַּ֖דְתִּי יֶ֥תֶר שְׁנוֹתָֽי׃

*Word for word:* I I.said in the.half my.days my let.me.go in the.gates of.Sheol I.have.been.caused.to.miss the.remainder my.years my

*JPS 1917:* I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go, even to the gates of the nether-world; I am deprived of the residue of my years.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b3_5bc_5de_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b3_5bc_5de_5b4_5d9/): 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).