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title: דָּהַם — astonish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּהַם (1724), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: astonish. BDB 1906: vb. astonish, astound. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּהַם

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«דָּהַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **astonish** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1724 · **BDB:** דָּהַם

### Glosses

astounded (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

astonish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1724/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. astonish, astound [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1724/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. astonish, astound (Arabic دَهِمَ, دَهَمَ )— Pt. כְּאִישׁ נִדְהָם Je 14:9 like a man astounded (‖ כְּגִבּוֹר לֹא יוכל להושׁיע); 𝔊 ὑπνῶν = נִרְדָּם.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּהַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1724/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 14:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.9/)

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לָ֤מָּה תִֽהְיֶה֙ כְּאִ֣ישׁ נִדְהָ֔ם כְּגִבּ֖וֹר לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל לְהוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְאַתָּ֧ה בְקִרְבֵּ֣נוּ יְהוָ֗ה וְשִׁמְךָ֛ עָלֵ֥ינוּ נִקְרָ֖א אַל־תַּנִּחֵֽנוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* why? are.you like a.person astounded like a.warrior \[who\].not he.is.able to save and you \[are\].in midst our O.Yahweh and name your on us it.is.called do.not abandon us

*JPS 1917:* Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet Thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and Thy name is called upon us; leave us not.

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