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# דְּמָמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1827

**whisper** — 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

whisper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1827/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּמָמָה: n.f. whisper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1827/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (silence) whisper (on format. cf. BaNB 87)—וְאַחַר הָאֵשׁ קוֹל דְּמָמָה דַקָּ֑ה 1 K 19:12; דְּמָמָה וָקוֹל אֶשְׁמָ֑ע Jb 4:16 a whisper and a voice, i.e. an articulate whisper (cf. Di); יָקֵם סְעָרָה לִדְמָמָ֑ה ψ 107:29 he settleth storm into whisper.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.29/#tree)

יָקֵ֣ם סְ֭עָרָה לִדְמָמָ֑ה וַ֝יֶּחֱשׁ֗וּ גַּלֵּיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.raised \[the\].storm into a.whisper and they.were.still waves their

*JPS 1917:* He made the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof were still.

[Job 4:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.16/#tree)

יַעֲמֹ֤ד ׀ וְֽלֹא־אַכִּ֬יר מַרְאֵ֗הוּ תְּ֭מוּנָה לְנֶ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י דְּמָמָ֖ה וָק֣וֹל אֶשְׁמָֽע׃

*Word for word:* it.stood.still and not I.recognized appearance its a.form \[was\].to before eyes my a.whisper and a.voice I.heard

*JPS 1917:* It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; I heard a still voice:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1827/): 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).