# H1820 דָּמָה

דָּמָה (dâmâh), Strong’s H1820: to be dumb or silent; hence, to fail or perish; trans. to destroy KJV: cease, be cut down (off), destroy, be brought to silence, be undone, [idiom] utterly.. Occurs 16…

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*dâmâh* — to be dumb or silent; hence, to fail or perish; trans. to destroy

KJV: cease, be cut down (off), destroy, be brought to silence, be undone, [idiom] utterly.

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [דָּמָה] vb. cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy
- Qal
- 1 intr. cease
- 2 cause to cease, cut off, destroy
- Niph. be cut off, destroyed, ruined

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 6:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/6?v=5) — Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips…
- [Isaiah 15:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/15?v=1) — The burden of Moab. For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is…
- [Jeremiah 6:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/6?v=2) — I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.
- [Jeremiah 14:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/14?v=17) — “You shall say this word to them: “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the…
- [Jeremiah 47:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/47?v=5) — Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing. You remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself?
- [Hosea 4:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/4?v=5) — You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
- [Hosea 4:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/4?v=6) — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you…
- [Hosea 10:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/10?v=7) — Samaria and her king float away like a twig on the water.
- [Hosea 10:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/10?v=15) — So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
- [Obadiah 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/obadiah/1?v=5) — “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had…