דָּם dam

Hebrew word for “blood” · Strong’s H1818 · used 360 times in 295 verses

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Meaning

1) blood; 1a) of wine (fig.)

How it is translated

Glosses given for dam in context, with how often each is used:

• blood 261
• bloods 71
• some of the blood 12
• some of blood 7
• any of blood 2
• ¿ the blood 2
• own blood 2
• will be bloods 1
• against blood 1
• like blood 1

Where it is used

Also in 16 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 4 (9), Ezekiel 22 (8), Leviticus 14 (7), Leviticus 17 (7), Leviticus 20 (7), Numbers 35 (6), 1 Kings 2 (6), Leviticus 7 (5), Leviticus 8 (5), Leviticus 16 (5)

Forms

• דם 76
• הדם 66
• דמו 24
• בדם 21
• דמים 20
• מדם 20
• ודם 18
• דמי 14
• לדם 12
• דמם 8

Words used with it

Words that share verses with dam more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁפַךְ shaphakh “to pour” 50
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 36
• נָקִי naqi “innocent” 23
• זָרַק zaraq “to scatter” 22
• שָׁחַט shachat “to slaughter” 24
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 36
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 29
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 28
• מִן־ min “from” 32
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 28
• מוּת mut “to die” 25
• נָזָה nazah “to sprinkle” 12

Key verses

The verses using dam that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Psalms 55:23 — But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
• Psalms 58:10 — The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
• Isaiah 1:11 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight…
• Isaiah 1:15 — And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Isaiah 33:15 — He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth…
• Jeremiah 22:3 — Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the…
• Jeremiah 22:17 — But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• Ezekiel 3:18 — When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the…
• Ezekiel 22:12 — In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast…
• Hosea 4:2 — By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
• Micah 7:2 — The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
• Zechariah 9:11 — As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.