[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%A2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ד](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/dalet/)‎ / דָּמַע‎

# דָּמַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1830

**weep** — used 2 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

weep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1830/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּמַע: vb. weep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1830/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. weep (NH id., Arabic دَمَعَ & دَمِعَ Aramaic דְּמַע, ܕܡܰܥ: Assyrian in deriv., v. infr.), Impf. 3 fs., and Inf. abs., וְדָמֹעַ תִּדְמַע וְתֵרֵד עֵינִי דִּמְעָה Je 13:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: bitterly (weep) (1); it will weep (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 13:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.17/#tree)

וְאִם֙ לֹ֣א תִשְׁמָע֔וּהָ בְּמִסְתָּרִ֥ים תִּבְכֶּֽה־נַפְשִׁ֖י מִפְּנֵ֣י גֵוָ֑ה וְדָמֹ֨עַ תִּדְמַ֜ע וְתֵרַ֤ד עֵינִי֙ דִּמְעָ֔ה כִּ֥י נִשְׁבָּ֖ה עֵ֥דֶר יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and if not you will.listen.to.it in secret.places it.will.weep self my because of pride and bitterly.(weep) it.will.weep and it.will.run.down eye my tear\[s\] (dm) it.has.been.taken.captive the.flock of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eyes shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1830.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1830/): 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).