דָּמָה dâmâh — to compare
Translated in the KJV as compare, devise, like, mean, think, use similitudes.
a primitive root; to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider.
dâmâh in each stem
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Jussive 1
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 8Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Imperative 2Participle (active) 1
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›