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title: דֳּמִי — cessation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דֳּמִי (1824), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: cessation. BDB 1906: cessation, pause, quiet, rest;. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דֳּמִי

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«דֳּמִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cessation** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1824 · **BDB:** דֳּמִי

### Glosses

rest (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cessation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1824/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

cessation, pause, quiet, rest; [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1824/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] cessation, pause, quiet, rest; ד׳ Is 62:6 + 2 times; cstr. דְּמִי Is 38:10 (but v. infr.);— quiet, in phr. אַל־ד׳ לָכֶם Is 62:6 keep not quiet (let there be no quiet to you); in prayer to God אַל־ד׳ לָךְ ψ 83:2 keep not quiet (inactive; ‖ חרשׂ, שׁקט); cf. וְאַל־תִּתְּנוּ ד׳ לוֹ Is 62:7 and give no rest to him (י׳). in phr. בִּדְמִי יָמַי, Is 38:10 appar. quiet, peacefulness, even tenour, of my days (so De Or SS); others, as Hi Ew Che Di, pause, resting-time, i.e. noon-day (cf. 𝔖 𝔙, \& height 𝔊), fig. of middle life, but usage dub.; KloSK 1884, 157 cessation, pause, of natural end of life, Hezekiah’s natural expectation, in contrast with the speedy death implied in v b; but parallelism of v 11a is ag. this; Brd emends בְּרֻם after 𝔊; Klol.c. suggests בְּתֹם or כְּתֹם but preferably in the half, i.e. the midst of my days from דָּמָה aequavit (Dathe).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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 «דֳּמִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1824/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 83:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.2/)

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אֱלֹהִ֥ים אַל־דֳּמִי־לָ֑ךְ אַל־תֶּחֱרַ֖שׁ וְאַל־תִּשְׁקֹ֣ט אֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* O.God \[let\].not rest \[belong\].to you do.not be.silent and do.not be.inactive O.God

*JPS 1917:* O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.

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[Isaiah 62:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.62.7/)

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וְאַֽל־תִּתְּנ֥וּ דֳמִ֖י ל֑וֹ עַד־יְכוֹנֵ֞ן וְעַד־יָשִׂ֧ים אֶת־יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֛ם תְּהִלָּ֖ה בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and do.not give rest to him until he.will.establish and until he.will.make (et) Jerusalem praise on the earth

*JPS 1917:* And give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.'

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