דָּם
dam
blood
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "dam" (H1818) is defined as "blood". This term is part of the semantic domain of "Body & Health", indicating its significant role in describing physical aspects of the human experience. With 360 occurrences in the Bible, "dam" is one of the most frequently used words in the text. "Dam" is used in various contexts, including medical conditions (e.g., skin conditions, wounds), death and injury, menstrual cycles, and sacrificial practices. Its range of usage underscores its importance in the Hebrew worldview, where blood is seen as a fundamental aspect of life, vitality, and identity. The significance of "dam" lies in its association with life-giving and life-taking properties. Blood is often linked with vitality, spiritual energy, and human dignity, making it a complex and multifaceted concept that permeates many aspects of human experience in the Hebrew Bible.
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Occurrences in Scripture
360 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 29:22So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:22So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:22So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:24Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:16They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.
Job 16:18“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
Psalms 68:23that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
Job 39:30His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”
Psalms 5:6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Psalms 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
Psalms 16:4Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.
Psalms 26:9Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
Psalms 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Exodus 29:16You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
Psalms 106:38They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
Psalms 106:38They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
Psalms 50:13Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 51:14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
Psalms 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Psalms 58:10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
Psalms 59:2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
Psalms 72:14He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
Leviticus 3:17“ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
Psalms 78:44he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
Psalms 79:3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
Psalms 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
Psalms 94:21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psalms 105:29He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Proverbs 1:16for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:18but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 6:17arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 12:6The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Proverbs 28:17A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
Proverbs 29:10The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.
Proverbs 30:33For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”
Isaiah 1:11“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 4:4when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 9:5For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.
Isaiah 26:21For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
Isaiah 34:3Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood.
Isaiah 34:6Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 34:6Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 34:7The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
Isaiah 49:26I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.