דָּמָה dâmâh — to be dumb or silent
Translated in the KJV as cease, be cut down, destroy, be brought to silence, be undone, × utterly.
a primitive root; to be dumb or silent; hence, to fail or perish; trans. to destroy.
dâmâh in each stem
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 10Participle (passive) 1Infinitive absolute 1
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Jussive 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
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 ›