# H1818 דָּם

דָּם (dâm), Strong’s H1818: 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… KJV: blood(-y…

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*dâm* — 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…

KJV: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.

Built from [דָּמַם dâmam](https://besorah.bible/word/H1826) (to be dumb) + [אָדַם ʼâdam](https://besorah.bible/word/H119) (flush or turn rosy)

Occurs 360 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- דָּם 300 n.m. blood
- 1 blood of man or animal
- 2 usually blood become visible
- 3 blood used with religious significance
- 4 fig. of wine

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=10) — The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
- [Genesis 4:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=11) — Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
- [Genesis 9:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=4) — But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
- [Genesis 9:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=5) — I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of…
- [Genesis 9:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=6) — Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
- [Genesis 37:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=22) — Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he…
- [Genesis 37:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=26) — Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
- [Genesis 37:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=31) — They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
- [Genesis 42:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=22) — Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen?…
- [Genesis 49:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=11) — Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in…