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# דַּמֶּשֶׂק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1834

**Damascus** — used 36 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

Damascus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1834/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּמֶּ֫שֶׂק: n.pr.loc. Damascus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1834/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Damascus (Assyrian Dimašḳi, Dimasḳi, DlPa 280 SchrCOT Gn 15, 2 & ABK 323 Jäger BAS ii. 281 f.; Arabic دَمِشْقُ, دِمِشْقُ; Aramaic 𝔗 Onk, etc. דמשק, Ps-Jon דרמשק; ܕܰܪܡܣܘܽܩ )—דַּמֶּשֶׂק 1 K 11:24 + 28 times; דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק Gn 14:15 + 8 times; דַּרְמֶשֶׂק 1 Ch 18:5 + 3 times Ch; דַּרְמָ֑שֶׂק 2 Ch 24:23; 28:5, דּוּמֶּשֶׂק 2 K 16:10; דְּמֶשֶׁק Am 3:12 v. foll., Vrss. דַּמֶּשֶׂק;—ancient Aramaean city, situated lat. 33° 30ˊ N., long. 36° 15ˊ E., in plain E. of Hermon & SE. of Anti-Lebanon; on the Nahr Baradâ (Gk. Chrysorrhoas); mod. Dimishḳ & Esh-Sham, RobBR iii. 440 ff. BdPal 307; Damascus Gn 14:15; Am 5:27; 1 K 11:24(×2) 2 K 14:28; Ct 7:5; so also prob. Gn 15:2 (perhaps gloss cf. Di), (&Am 3:12 v. foll.); a trading-centre Ez 27:18; as capital & residence of king of Aram 1 K 15:18 = 2 Ch 16:2, cf. 1 K 20:34; 2 K 16:9, 10(×2), 11(×2), 12; 2 Ch 28:5; Is 7:8(×2); 8:4; 10:9 (cf. PetersHbr April 1885, 242) 17:1(×2), 3; Je 49:23, 24, 27; including also surrounding territory Ez 47:16, 17 cf. v 18; 48:1, v. מִדְבַּ֫רָה ד׳ 1 K 19:15; נַהֲרוֹת ד׳ 2 K 5:12; = kingdom Am 1:3, 5 cf. Zc 9:1; once (late) מֶלֶךְ ד׳ 2 Ch 24:23; note, also אֲרַם ד׳ 2 S 8:5, 6 = 1 Ch 18:5, 6; further אֱלֹהֵי ד׳ 2 Ch 28:23 (‖ אֱלֹהֵי מַלְכֵי אֲרָם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: Damascus (21); of Damascus (13); \[is\] Damascus (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 17:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.1/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק הִנֵּ֤ה דַמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙ מוּסָ֣ר מֵעִ֔יר וְהָיְתָ֖ה מְעִ֥י מַפָּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Damascus there! Damascus \[is\].about.to.be.removed from a.city and it.will.be a.ruin of.a.ruin

*JPS 1917:* The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

[Jeremiah 49:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.27/#tree)

וְהִצַּ֥תִּי אֵ֖שׁ בְּחוֹמַ֣ת דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק וְאָכְלָ֖ה אַרְמְנ֥וֹת בֶּנ־הֲדָֽדבֶּנ־הֲדָֽד׃ס

*Word for word:* and I.will.kindle a.fire at the.wall of.Damascus and it.will.consume the.fortresses of Ben.Hadad

*JPS 1917:* And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1834/): 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).