# דָּמָה (damah)

Israeli respelling: da-mah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1820. 14 Old Testament occurrences.

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

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

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/damah-h1820

## Occurrences

- [Psalms 49:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/12) — Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
- [Psalms 49:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/20) — Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
- [Isaiah 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/6/5) — Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine…
- [Isaiah 15:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/15/1) — The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste,…
- [Jeremiah 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/2) — I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
- [Jeremiah 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/17) — Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daugh…
- [Jeremiah 47:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/47/5) — Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
- [Lamentations 3:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/49) — Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
- [Hosea 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/5) — Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
- [Hosea 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/6) — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest…
- [Hosea 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/7) — As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
- [Hosea 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/15) — So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
- [Obadiah 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/5) — If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherer…
- [Zephaniah 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/11) — Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.