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Lexicon :: Strong's G1154 - damaskos

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Δαμασκός
Transliteration
damaskos (Key)
Pronunciation
dam-as-kos'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin דַּמֶּשֶׂק (H1834)
Strong’s Definitions

Δαμασκός Damaskós, dam-as-kos'; of Hebrew origin (H1834); Damascus, a city of Syria:—Damascus.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G1154 in the following manner: Damascus (15x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G1154 in the following manner: Damascus (15x).
  1. Damascus = "silent is the sackcloth weaver"

    1. one of the most ancient and most important cities of Syria lying in [a most]1 lovely and fertile plain at the eastern base of the Antilibanus



1. Edited by BLB [An error was made in the original document incorrectly stating "almost".]

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Δαμασκός Damaskós, dam-as-kos'; of Hebrew origin (H1834); Damascus, a city of Syria:—Damascus.
STRONGS G1154:
Δαμασκός, -οῦ, , Damascus, (Hebrew דַּמֶשֶׂק), a very ancient (Genesis 14:15), celebrated, flourishing city of Syria, lying in a most lovely and fertile plain at the eastern base of Antilibanus. It had a great number of Jews among its inhabitants (Josephus, b. j. 2, 20, 2 cf. 7, 8, 7). Still one of the most opulent cities of western Asia, having about 109,000 inhabitants ["in 1859 about 150,000; of these 6,000 were Jews, and 15,000 Christians" (Porter)]: Acts 9:2ff; Acts 22:5ff; 2 Corinthians 11:32; Galatians 1:17. [Cf. BB. DD. under the word, especially Alex.'s Kitto.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
14:15
Acts
9:2; 22:5
2 Corinthians
11:32
Galatians
1:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1154 matches the Greek Δαμασκός (damaskos),
which occurs 42 times in 40 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:15 - And he divided [fn]his men against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is [fn]north of Damascus.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 -

And Abram said, “O Lord Yahweh, what will You give me, as I go on being childless, and the [fn]heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 - Then the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah. And David struck down 22,000 Arameans.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:6 - Then David placed garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, bringing tribute. And Yahweh granted salvation to David wherever he went.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:18 - Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh and the treasuries of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 -

And Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and you will arrive and anoint Hazael king over Aram;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will return, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” Ahab said, “And I will let you go with this covenant.” So he cut a covenant with him and let him go.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - “Are not [fn]Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in wrath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:7 -

Then Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told to him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to meet him and took a present in his hand, even every kind of good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ loads; and he came and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I be restored to life from this sickness?’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 -

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:9 - So the king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and seized it and took the people of it away into exile to Kir, and put Rezin to death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 -

Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria and saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - So Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, thus Urijah the priest made it, [fn]before the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:5 -

Then the Arameans of [fn]Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah. And David struck down 22,000 men of the Arameans.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:6 - Then David placed garrisons among the Arameans of [fn]Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, bringing tribute. And Yahweh granted salvation to David wherever he went.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of Yahweh and the king’s house, and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 -

Now it happened at the turn of the year that the military force of the Arameans came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 -

So, Yahweh his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they struck him and carried away from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:23 - Indeed, he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had struck him, and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they became the stumbling of him and all Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 -

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim;

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,

Which faces toward Damascus.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:8 - “For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - for before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:9 -

“Is not Calno like Carchemish,

Or Hamath like Arpad,

Or Samaria like Damascus?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1 -

The [fn]oracle concerning Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city

And will become a fallen ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 -

“And the [fn]fortified city will cease from Ephraim,

And [fn]sovereignty from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram;

They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,”

Declares Yahweh of hosts.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 -

Concerning Damascus.

“Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,

For they have heard a bad report;

They are melting away.

There is anxiety by the sea,

It cannot be quieted.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 -

“Damascus has become limp in their hands;

She has turned away to flee,

And panic has taken hold of her;

Distress and pangs have seized her

Like a woman in childbirth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:27 -

“I will set fire to the wall of Damascus,

And it will devour the [fn]fortified towers of Ben-hadad.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:18 - “Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your [fn]goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:16 - [fn]Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:17 - “And the boundary shall be from the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 -

“And the east side, from between Hauran, Damascus, Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:1 -

“Now these are the names of the tribes: from the northern extremity, [fn]beside the way of Hethlon to [fn]Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, toward the north [fn]beside Hamath, [fn]running from east to west, Dan, one portion.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:3 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“For three transgressions of Damascus and for four

I will not turn back its punishment

Because they threshed Gilead with implements of sharp iron.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:5 -

“I will also break the gate bar of Damascus

And cut off the inhabitant from the [fn]valley of Aven

And him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden;

So the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,”

Says Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:12 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“Just as the shepherd delivers from the lion’s mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear,

So will the sons of Israel inhabiting Samaria be delivered

With the corner of a bed and the [fn]cover of a couch!

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:27 - “Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 -

“Therefore, as I live,” declares Yahweh of hosts,

The God of Israel,

“Surely Moab will be like Sodom

And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah

A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,

And a perpetual desolation.

The remnant of My people will plunder them,

And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:1 -

The [fn]oracle of the word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward Yahweh),

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