Strong's #1826: damam (pronounced daw-man')

a prim root (compare 1724, 1820); to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish:--cease, be cut down (off), forbear, hold peace, quiet self, rest, be silent, keep (put to) silence, be (stand) still, tarry, wait.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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dâmam

1) to be silent, be still, wait, be dumb, grow dumb

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be silent

1a2) to be still, die

1a3) to be struck dumb

1b) (Niphal) to be silenced, be made silent, destroyed

1c) (Poal) to make quiet

1d) (Hiphil) to make silent (cause to die)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a prim root [compare H1724, H1820]

Usage:

This word is used 30 times:

 

Exodus 15:16: "upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over,"
Leviticus 10:3: "all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace."
Joshua 10:12: "in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon."
Joshua 10:13: "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people themselves upon their enemies."
1 Samuel 2:9: "the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; by strength shall no"
1 Samuel 14:9: "they say thus unto us, Tarry until to you; then we will stand still"
Job 29:21: "Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel."
Job 30:27: "My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction"
Job 31:34: "or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?"
Psalms 4:4: "with your own heart upon and be still. Selah."
Psalms 30:12: "my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD I will give thanks unto thee forever."
Psalms 31:17: "I have called upon thee: let the wicked and let them be silent in the grave."
Psalms 35:15: "it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:"
Psalms 37:7: " Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way,"
Psalms 62:5: "My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation"
Psalms 131:2: "Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of"
Isaiah 23:2: " Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over have replenished."
Jeremiah 8:14: "and let us enter into cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD"
Jeremiah 8:14: "there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink,"
Jeremiah 25:37: "And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger"
Jeremiah 47:6: "into thy scabbard, rest, and be still."
Jeremiah 48:2: "and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue"
Jeremiah 49:26: "and all the men shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD"
Jeremiah 50:30: "and all her men shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 51:6: "and deliver every man his soul: cut off in her iniquity; for this"
Lamentations 2:10: "of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: dust upon their heads;"
Lamentations 2:18: "let not the apple of thine eye cease."
Lamentations 3:28: "He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon"
Ezekiel 24:17: " Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, the tire of thine head"
Amos 5:13: "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for is an evil"