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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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 - During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[fn] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 - When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:6 - He put garrisons in the Aramean kingdom of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to him and brought tribute. The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:24 - When David destroyed Zobah’s army, Rezon gathered a band of men around him and became their leader; they went to Damascus, where they settled and took control.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:18 - Asa then took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and of his own palace. He entrusted it to his officials and sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 - The LORD said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - “I will return the cities my father took from your father,” Ben-Hadad offered. “You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab said, “On the basis of a treaty I will set you free.” So he made a treaty with him, and let him go.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:7 - Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, “The man of God has come all the way up here,”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 - As for the other events of Jeroboam’s reign, all he did, and his military achievements, including how he recovered for Israel both Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:9 - The king of Assyria complied by attacking Damascus and capturing it. He deported its inhabitants to Kir and put Rezin to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 - Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for its construction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - So Uriah the priest built an altar in accordance with all the plans that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus and finished it before King Ahaz returned.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:12 - When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings[fn] on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:5 - When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:6 - He put garrisons in the Aramean kingdom of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to him and brought him tribute. The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - Asa then took the silver and gold out of the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and of his own palace and sent it to Ben-Hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 - At the turn of the year,[fn] the army of Aram marched against Joash; it invaded Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the people. They sent all the plunder to their king in 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 hands of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:23 - He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought, “Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they were his downfall and the downfall 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 are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:8 - for the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - For before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:9 - ‘Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1 - A prophecy against Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites,”

declares the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are dismayed, for they have heard bad news. They are disheartened, troubled like[fn] the restless sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - Damascus has become feeble, she has turned to flee and panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her, pain like that of a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:27 - “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:18 - “ ‘Damascus did business with you because of your many products and great wealth of goods. They offered wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:16 - Berothah[fn] and Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:17 - The boundary will extend from the sea to Hazar Enan,[fn] along the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 - “On the east side the boundary will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Dead Sea and as far as Tamar.[fn] This will be the eastern boundary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:1 - “These are the tribes, listed by name: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion; it will follow the Hethlon road to Lebo Hamath; Hazar Enan and the northern border of Damascus next to Hamath will be part of its border from the east side to the west side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:3 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:5 - I will break down the gate of Damascus; I will destroy the king who is in[fn] the Valley of Aven[fn] and the one who holds the scepter in Beth Eden. The people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,”

says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:27 - Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is God Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:1 - A prophecy: The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrak and will come to rest on Damascus— for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD—[fn]
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