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Lexicon :: Strong's H1832 - dimʿâ

Aa
דִּמְעָה
Transliteration
dimʿâ
Pronunciation
dim-aw'
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Part of Speech
collective feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 442b

Strong’s Definitions

דִּמְעָה dimʻâh, dim-aw'; feminine of H1831; weeping:—tears.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's H1832 in the following manner: tear (23x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's H1832 in the following manner: tear (23x).

  1. tears

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דִּמְעָה dimʻâh, dim-aw'; feminine of H1831; weeping:—tears.
STRONGS H1832: Abbreviations
† דִּמְעָה noun feminine collective tears (chiefly poetic and late; frequently in Jeremiah and contemporary) (Arabic bdb019907; Assyrian dimu, dimtu HptKAT 2 Gloss i. ZimBP 23, 95; Aramaic דִּמְעָא, bdb019908; Late Hebrew דֶּמַע, דִּמְעָה) — absolute ד׳ Psalm 80:6 + 10 times; construct דִּמְעַת Ecclesiastes 4:1; suffix דִּמְעָתִי Psalm 6:7 + 4 times; דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ 2 Kings 20:5 = Isaiah 38:5 + Ezekiel 24:16 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co); דִּמְעָתָהּ Lamentations 1:2; plural דְּמָעוֺת Psalm 80:6; Lamentations 2:11 — tears Psalm 6:7; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Lamentations 1:2; Lamentations 2:11; especially in Jeremiah in phrase תֵּרֵד עֵינִי ד׳ etc. Jeremiah 9:17; Jeremiah 13:17; Jeremiah 14:17, compare Lamentations 2:18; Jeremiah 8:23 וְעֵינִי מְקוֺר ד׳; אֲרַיָּ֫וֶךְ דִּמְעָתִי of weeping over, in behalf of one Isaiah 16:9; as appealing to God's compassion 2 Kings 20:5 = Isaiah 38:5; Psalm 39:13; Psalm 56:9 שִׂימָה ד׳ בְּנאֹדֶ֑ךָ (compare Che); see also Psalm 116:8; Jeremiah 31:16; Isaiah 25:8; opposed to רִנָּה Psalm 126:5; of hypocritical tears Malachi 2:13; figurative tears as food Psalm 42:4 (דִּמְעָתִי לחם); לחם ד׳ Psalm 80:6; as drink Psalm 80:6, compare Babylonian dimtu maštîtî, tears (were) my drink (ZimBP 42; || bikîtum kurmatî, weeping (was) my sustenance). — Ezekiel 24:16 וְלֹא תָבוֺא דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co compare Ezekiel 24:23.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Kings

20:5; 20:5

Psalms

6:7; 6:7; 39:13; 42:4; 56:9; 80:6; 80:6; 80:6; 80:6; 116:8; 126:5

Ecclesiastes

4:1; 4:1

Isaiah

16:9; 25:8; 38:5; 38:5

Jeremiah

9:17; 13:17; 14:17; 31:16

Lamentations

1:2; 1:2; 2:11; 2:11; 2:18

Ezekiel

24:16; 24:16; 24:23

Malachi

2:13

H1832

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1832 matches the Hebrew דִּמְעָה (dimʿâ),
which occurs 23 times in 22 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5 - Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:6 - The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 - Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:3 - My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:8 - You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:5 - You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:8 - You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:5 - Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:1 - And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:9 - For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:8 - He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:5 - Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:1 - If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:18 - Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17 - But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 - And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16 - The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2 - She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 - My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:18 - Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:16 - Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:13 - And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.
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