Aramaic word · H1821

דְּמָה

dameh

be like

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

(P'al) to be like

Aramaic of da.mah (דָּמָה "to resemble" H1819)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Daniel · 2

  1. Daniel 3:25 דָּמֵ֖ה [is] like

    “Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”

    Here: 'Resembles.' The king is describing a likeness, not naming an identity. The same verb is used in Daniel 7:5 for a beast 'like a bear'.

  2. Daniel 7:5 דָּמְיָ֣ה [was] like

    Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.