Strong's Hebrew · H1818
H1818 dâm
דָּם
dawm
blood
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dâm appears 358 times in Scripture, including Genesis 4:10 and Exodus 4:9. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
In the King James Version
blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), innocent.
Derivation
Appears 358 times in Scripture
““What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.”
“But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.””
“Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.”
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.”
“But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.”
“Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?”
“Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”
““Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.”
“And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
