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title: דֻּמָּה — one silenced · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דֻּמָּה (1822), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: one silenced. BDB 1906: n.f. one silenced, brought to silence destroyed. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דֻּמָּה

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«דֻּמָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **one silenced** — 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:** 1822 · **BDB:** דֻּמָּה

### Glosses

one.silenced (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

one silenced [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1822/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. one silenced, brought to silence destroyed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1822/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. one silenced, brought to silence (?; destroyed?) מִי כְצוֹר כְּדֻמָּה בְּתוֹךְ הַיָּ֑ם Ez 27:32 (form pecul. \& sense dub.: Baer כְּדֻמָה; Co כְּבֻדָּה from כָּבֹד adj., cf. 23:41 ψ 45:14) AV What city is like Tyre, like the destroyed (as though for מְדֻמָּה cf. ההללה 26:1; but Pi. Pu. not elsewhere) in the midst of the sea? RV like her that is brought to silence.—DlBaer Ezech p. xi. \& Pr 64 der., hesitantly, from II. דמם.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דֻּמָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1822/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 27:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.32/)

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וְנָשְׂא֨וּ אֵלַ֤יִךְ בְּנִיהֶם֙ קִינָ֔ה וְקוֹנְנ֖וּ עָלָ֑יִךְ מִ֣י כְצ֔וֹר כְּדֻמָ֖ה בְּת֥וֹךְ הַיָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.take.up concerning you in wailing their a.lamentation and they.will.make.a.lament on you who? \[is\].like Tyre like one.silenced in the.middle of the.sea

*JPS 1917:* And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee: who was there like Tyre, fortified in the midst of the sea?

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