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דָּם (H1818)

dâm

dawm

from דָּמַם (compare אָדַם); blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood); blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

דָּם 300 n.m. blood
1 blood of man or animal
2 usually blood become visible
3 blood used with religious significance
4 fig. of wine

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


295 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 4:10
    And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
  • Genesis 4:11
    And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
  • Genesis 9:4
    But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
  • Genesis 9:5
    And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
  • Genesis 9:6
    Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
  • Genesis 37:22
    And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
  • Genesis 37:26
    And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
  • Genesis 37:31
    And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
  • Genesis 42:22
    And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
  • Genesis 49:11
    Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: