דָּמָה

Numbers 33:56 דִּמִּ֛יתִי I intended

And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”

Judges 20:5 דִּמּ֣וּ they intended

And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

2 Samuel 21:5 דִּמָּה־ he planned

And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

Esther 4:13 תְּדַמִּ֣י you imagine

he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.

Psalm 48:9 דִּמִּ֣ינוּ we have reflected on

Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.

Psalm 50:21 דִּמִּ֗יתָ you imagined

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

Here: 'You imagined, you pictured.' The root means making a likeness or comparison. The man built a mental picture of God out of God's silence, and the picture looked like himself.

Psalm 89:6 יִדְמֶ֥ה is he like?

For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

Here: 'Is like' or 'resembles'. It asks about likeness of nature, not only of rank. It is related to demut, the 'likeness' of Genesis 1:26.

Psalm 102:6 דָּ֭מִיתִי I am like

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

Psalm 144:4 דָּמָ֑ה he is like

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Here: A perfect-tense verb used for a standing truth: "is like", "has always been like". Its sound picks up 'āDāM: 'ādām ... dāmāh, "humankind ... resembles", as if the word for human already carries the word for likeness inside it.

Song of Songs 1:9 דִּמִּיתִ֖יךְ I liken you

I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

Song of Songs 2:9 דּוֹמֶ֤ה [is] like

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

Song of Songs 2:17 דְּמֵה־ be like

Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

Song of Songs 7:7 דָּֽמְתָ֣ה it is like

Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.

Song of Songs 8:14 וּֽדְמֵה־ and be like

Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Isaiah 1:9 דָּמִֽינוּ׃ ס we were like

Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

Here: 'We would have resembled.' It repeats the earlier line in parallel, as Hebrew poetry often does. A different root with the same letters means 'to be cut off, silenced' (compare Isaiah 6:5, 'I am undone'). A few readers hear an echo of it here, but the plain sense is 'resemble'.

Isaiah 10:7 יְדַמֶּ֔ה he intended

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

Here: The root's basic sense is "to be like"; in this intensive verb form it means to picture something in the mind, so to intend or purpose it. The same verb is used of God's own purpose against Assyria in Isa 14:24.

Isaiah 14:14 אֶדַּמֶּ֖ה I will make myself like

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Isaiah 14:24 דִּמִּ֙יתִי֙ I have intended

The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

Here: Piel perfect, 'I have pictured / intended'. The root means 'be like'. In this form it is forming a likeness of something in the mind, then a settled intention to do it. God's mental picture of the outcome is the template reality will match.

Isaiah 40:18 תְּדַמְּי֣וּן will you liken !

To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

Here: This form means 'make like' or 'treat as equal to'. It speaks to 'you' (plural), the hearers. The longer ending (-un) is an older, emphatic form that gives the question weight.

Isaiah 40:25 תְדַמְּי֖וּנִי will you liken me

“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

Here: 'Will you (plural) liken me', an intensive verb form with 'me' attached. It means setting God beside something and calling the two alike, either in thought or by making an image. Verses 18–20 have just mocked the craftsmen who make idols, so both senses are present.

Isaiah 46:5 תְדַמְי֖וּנִי וְנִדְמֶֽה׃ will you liken me, and we may be alike

To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?

Here: Piel (intensive/causative stem) imperfect, 'you' plural, with the object 'me'. It means to treat something as resembling God, to offer it as his likeness. The root is the same one behind 'likeness' (demut). Because of the imperfect it reads as 'would you / could you liken me?'

Jeremiah 6:2 דָּמִ֖יתִי I resemble

Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

Lamentations 2:13 אֲדַמֶּה־ will I liken

What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

Here: 'Shall I liken.' The verb is used for finding something that resembles something else, a likeness. The poet is looking for anything that looks like what has happened to Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 31:2 דָּמִ֥יתָ are you like

“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Who can be compared to your greatness?

Ezekiel 31:8 דָמוּ֙ דָמָ֥ה they were like, it was like

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:18 דָמִ֥יתָ are you like

Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”

Here: Perfect tense, 'you' singular: 'whom have you resembled?', which means 'whom are you like?' Pharaoh is addressed directly as the tree.

Ezekiel 32:2 נִדְמֵ֑יתָ you became like

“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’

Here: It most likely means 'you were likened' or 'you thought yourself like' a lion. A rarer root spelled the same way means 'be silenced, destroyed', which would give 'lion of the nations, you are finished!' (see debates).

Hosea 12:10 אֲדַמֶּֽה׃ I gave parables

I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.

Here: The intensive form of 'to be like': 'I draw likenesses, I speak in images'. The imperfect suggests repeated action ('I kept speaking in images'). A same-sounding Hebrew root means 'to destroy' (H1820), and some read 'through the prophets I bring destruction'; see Debates.