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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, ἡ, 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.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:15 - He divided his forces against them by night, and he and his servants attacked them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 - When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:6 - Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought tribute. So the LORD preserved David wherever he went.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:18 - Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD 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 Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 - Then the LORD said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - So Ben-Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Then Ahab said, “I will send you away with this treaty.” So he made a treaty 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[fn] and the 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 a rage.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:7 - Then Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did—his might, how he made war, and how he recaptured for Israel, from Damascus and Hamath, what had belonged to Judah—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 - So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the priest made it before King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:5 - When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:6 - Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought tribute. So the LORD preserved David wherever he went.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - Then Asa brought silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben-Hadad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 - So it happened in the spring of the year that the army of Syria came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the leaders of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 - Therefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They defeated him, and carried away a great multitude of them as captives, and brought them to Damascus. Then he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:23 - For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, saying, “Because 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 - Your neck is like an ivory tower,
Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon
By the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
Which looks 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.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken,
So that it will not be a people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - “for before the child shall have knowledge to cry ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will 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 like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria like Damascus?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1 - The burden against Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - Against Damascus.

“Hamath and Arpad are shamed,
For they have heard bad news.
They are fainthearted;
There is trouble on the sea;
It cannot be quiet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:27

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:18 - “Damascus was your merchant because of the abundance of goods you made, because of your many luxury items, with the wine of Helbon and with 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), to Hazar Hatticon (which is on the border of Hauran).

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:17 - “Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus; and as for the north, northward, it is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 - “On the east side you shall mark out the border from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, along the Jordan, and along the eastern side of the sea. This is the east side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:1 - “Now these are the names of the tribes: From the northern border along the road to Hethlon at the entrance of Hamath, to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus northward, in the direction of Hamath, there shall be one section for Dan from its east to its west side;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:3 - Thus says the LORD:

“For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they have threshed Gilead with implements of iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:5 - I will also break the gate bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven,
And the one who holds the scepter from Beth Eden.
The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir,”
Says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:12 - Thus says the LORD:

“As a shepherd takes from the mouth of a lion
Two legs or a piece of an ear,
So shall the children of Israel be taken out
Who dwell in Samaria—
In the corner of a bed and on the edge[fn] of a couch!

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:27 - Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus,”
Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 - Therefore, as I live,”
Says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Surely Moab shall be like Sodom,
And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
Overrun with weeds and saltpits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The residue of My people shall plunder them,
And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:1 - The burden[fn] of the word of the LORD
Against the land of Hadrach,
And Damascus its resting place
(For the eyes of men
And all the tribes of Israel
Are on the LORD);
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