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Lexicon :: Strong's H1834 - dammeśeq

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דַּמֶּשֶׂק
Transliteration
dammeśeq
Pronunciation
dam-meh'-sek
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign origin
Strong’s Definitions

דַּמֶּשֶׂק Dammeseq, dam-meh'-sek; or דּוּמֶשֶׂק Dûwmeseq; or דַּרְמֶשֶׂק Darmeseq; of foreign origin; Damascus, a city of Syria:—Damascus.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x

The KJV translates Strong's H1834 in the following manner: Damascus (44x), Syriadamascus (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x
The KJV translates Strong's H1834 in the following manner: Damascus (44x), Syriadamascus (1x).

  1. Damascus = "silent is the sackcloth weaver"

    1. an ancient trading city, capital of Syria, located in the plain east of Hermon, 130 (205 km) miles northeast of Jerusalem

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דַּמֶּשֶׂק Dammeseq, dam-meh'-sek; or דּוּמֶשֶׂק Dûwmeseq; or דַּרְמֶשֶׂק Darmeseq; of foreign origin; Damascus, a city of Syria:—Damascus.
STRONGS H1834: Abbreviations
† דַּמֶּ֫שֶׂק proper name, of a location Damascus (Assyrian Dimašḳi, Dimasḳi, DlPa 280 SchrCOT Genesis 15:2 & ABK 323 JägerBAS ii. 281 f. Arabic bdb019909, bdb019910; Aramaic TargumOnk, etc. דמשק, Ps-Jon דרמשק; bdb019911) — דַּמֶּשֶׂק 1 Kings 11:24 + 28 times; דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק Genesis 14:15 + 8 times; דַּרְמֶשֶׂק 1 Chronicles 18:5 + 3 times ch; דַּרְמָ֑שֶׂק 2 Chronicles 24:23; 28:5; דּוּמֶּשֶׂק 2 Kings 16:10; דְּמֶשֶׁק Amos 3:12 see following, Vrss. דַּמֶּשֶׂק; — ancient Aramaean city, situated latitude 33 degrees 30 minutes north, longitude 36 degrees 15 minutes east, in plain east of Hermon & southeast of Anti-Lebanon; on the Nahr Baradâ (Greek Chrysorrhoas); modern Dimishḳ & Esh-Sham, RobBR iii. 440 ff. BdPal 307; Damascus Genesis 14:15; Amos 5:27; 1 Kings 11:24 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 14:28; Songs 7:5; so also probably Genesis 15:2 (perhaps gloss compare Di), (Amos 3:12 see following); a trading-centre Ezekiel 27:18; as capital & residence of king of Aram 1 Kings 15:18 2 Chronicles 16:2, compare 1 Kings 20:34; 2 Kings 16:9, 10 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 16:11 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 16:12; 2 Chronicles 28:5; Isaiah 7:8 (twice in verse); Isaiah 8:4; Isaiah 10:9 (compare PetersHebraica. April 1885, 242) Isaiah 17:1 (twice in verse); Isaiah 17:3; Jeremiah 49:23, 24, 27; including also surrounding territory Ezekiel 47:16, 17 compare Ezekiel 47:18; Ezekiel 48:1, see מִדְבַּ֫רָה ד׳ 1 Kings 19:15; נַהֲרוֺת ד׳ 2 Kings 5:12; = kingdom Amos 1:3, 5 compare Zechariah 9:1; once (late) מֶלֶךְ ד׳ 2 Chronicles 24:23; note also אֲרַם ד׳ 2 Samuel 8:5, 6 = 1 Chronicles 18:5, 6; further אֱלֹהֵי ד׳ 2 Chronicles 28:23 (|| אֱלֹהֵי מַלְכֵי אֲרָם).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:15; 14:15; 15:2; 15:2

2 Samuel

8:5; 8:6

1 Kings

11:24; 11:24; 15:18; 19:15; 20:34

2 Kings

5:12; 14:28; 16:9; 16:10; 16:10; 16:11; 16:12

1 Chronicles

18:5; 18:5; 18:6

2 Chronicles

16:2; 24:23; 24:23; 28:5; 28:5; 28:23

Song of Songs

7:5

Isaiah

7:8; 8:4; 10:9; 17:1; 17:3

Jeremiah

49:23; 49:24; 49:27

Ezekiel

27:18; 47:16; 47:17; 47:18; 48:1

Amos

1:3; 1:5; 3:12; 3:12; 5:27

Zechariah

9:1

H1834

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Strong's Number H1834 matches the Hebrew דַּמֶּשֶׂק (dammeśeq),
which occurs 45 times in 40 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:15 - And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is to the left of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 - And the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David smote of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:6 - And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:24 - And he collected men to him, and became captain of a band, when David slew them of Zobah; and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and reigned in Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:18 - And Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and gave 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 Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 - And Jehovah said to him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comest, anoint Hazael king over Syria;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - And Ben-Hadad said to him, The cities that my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thyself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I said Ahab will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them and be clean? And he turned and went away in a rage.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:7 - And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him saying, The man of God is come hither.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - And Hazael went to meet him, and took with him a present, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden; and he came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover from this disease?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 - And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered for Israel that which had belonged to Judah in Damascus and in Hamath, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:9 - And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried it captive to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 - And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria; and he saw the altar that was at Damascus, and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the form of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all its workmanship.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus; thus Urijah the priest made it, against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:12 - And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached to the altar, and offered upon it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:5 - And the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, and David smote of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:6 - And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - And Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Jehovah and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 - And it came to pass at the end of the year that the army of Syria came up against him; and they entered into Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king at Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 - Therefore Jehovah his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:23 - And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had smitten him; and he said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, like the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:8 - for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no more a people;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:9 - Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1 - The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is distress on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - Damascus is grown feeble: she turneth herself to flee, and terror hath seized on her; trouble and sorrows have taken hold of her as of a woman in travail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:27 - And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:18 - Damascus dealt with thee because of the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason of the abundance of all substance, with wine of Helbon, and white wool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:16 - Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:17 - And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath: this is the north side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 - -- And on the east side ye shall measure between Hauran and Damascus, and Gilead and the land of Israel by the Jordan, from the border unto the east sea: this is the east side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:1 - And these are the names of the tribes: From the north end along the way of Hethlon, as one entereth into Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward unto near Hamath -- the east and west side belonging to him -- shall Dan have one portion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:3 - Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:5 - And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:27 - and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:1 - The burden of the word of Jehovah, in the land of Hadrach, and on Damascus shall it rest; (for Jehovah hath an eye upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel;)
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