What does דָּם · חָשַׁב mean in the Bible?
e. drops of blood)".
Hebrew · H1818, H2803
דָּם יֵחָשֵׁב
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) · properly, to plait or interpenetrate , i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate ; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think , regard , value , compute
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דָּם H1818 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)
Pronunciation dām
Blood as life-force whose shedding marks covenant, atonement, and culpability before God throughout scripture
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חָשַׁב H2803 properly, to plait or interpenetrate , i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate ; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think , regard , value , compute
Pronunciation yaḥăšāḇ-lî
Thinking as mental weaving or plotting; ranges from neutral computation to malicious scheming or divine imputation of righteousness.
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What does דָּם יֵחָשֵׁב (dam yechashev) mean in the Bible?
דָּם · חָשַׁב is a Hebrew phrase meaning "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)".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H1818, H2803?
H1818, H2803 is connected to 485 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. 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)
Strong's H1818, H2803
Lexical occurrences 485 verses Source Gloss
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)
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
Word Origins
דָּם יֵחָשֵׁב is built from these roots:
Cross-Language Connections
Greek words that correspond to or develop the meaning of this Hebrew word in the New Testament.
G184 LXX equivalent Greek
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
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