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Jeremiah 49:23
“Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1834 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Damascus, a city of Syria
- Derivation
- or דּוּמֶשֶׂק; or דַּרְמֶשֶׂק; of foreign origin;
- KJV renderings
- Damascus.
- Grammar
- לְ — preposition
- דַמֶּ֗שֶׂק — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 45 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 14:15Genesis 15:22 Samuel 8:52 Samuel 8:61 Kings 11:24
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 דַּמֶּשֶׂק 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.