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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.

  • Numbers 19:5
    And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
  • Numbers 23:24
    Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
  • Numbers 35:19
    The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
  • Numbers 35:21
    Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
  • Numbers 35:24
    Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
  • Numbers 35:25
    And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
  • Numbers 35:27
    And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
  • Numbers 35:33
    So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
  • Deuteronomy 12:16
    Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
  • Deuteronomy 12:23
    Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.