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Hosea 4:6
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1820 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to be dumb or silent; hence, to fail or perish; trans. to destroy
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- cease, be cut down (off), destroy, be brought to silence, be undone, [idiom] utterly.
- Grammar
- נִדְמ֥וּ — verb Niphal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 16 times in the Hebrew Bible.Psalms 49:13Psalms 49:21Isaiah 6:5Isaiah 15:1Isaiah 15:1
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read דָּמָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.