דָּמָה
dāmâ
be like
Strong's H1819VerbHebrewTWOT 437

דָּמָה (dāmâ) is a Hebrew verb meaning be like. It appears 29 times in 10 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1819).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 437)

Range of meaning (TWOT 437)be like, resemble; liken, compare, imagine, think, devise, consider to be like, form an idea; make oneself, become like; consider; mean, use similitudes
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

דָּמָה verb: be like, resemble

Strong's H1819 דָּמָה: to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
KJV:compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Numbers 33:56Judges 20:52 Samuel 21:5

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