Strong's Hebrew · H1820
דָּמָה
dâmâh · daw-mam'
cease, be cut down (off), destroy, be brought to silence, be undone, [idiom] utterly.
Definition
to be dumb or silent; hence, to fail or perish; trans. to destroy
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 15 times in Scripture
“You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—”
“The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?”
“A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.”
“This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!”
“My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,”
“You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.”
“But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.”
“Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.””
““If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).