Lexical Summary Dammeseq: a city in Aram (Syria) Original Word: דַּמֶּשֶׂקTransliteration: Dammeseq Phonetic Spelling: (dam-meh'-sek) Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a city in Aram (Syria) Meaning: Damascus -- a city in Aram (Syria) Strong's Concordance Damascus Or Duwmeseq {doo-meh'-sek}; or Darmeseq {dar-meh'-sek}; of foreign origin; Damascus, a city of Syria -- Damascus. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1834. Dammeseq דַּמֶּ֫שֶׂק proper name, of a location Damascus (Assyrian Dimaš‡i, Dimas‡i, DlPa 280 SchrCOT Genesis 15:2 & ABK 323 JägerBAS ii. 281 f. Arabic , ; Aramaic ᵑ7Onk, etc. דמשק, Ps-Jon דרמשק; ) — דַּמֶּשֶׂק 1 Kings 11:24 28t.; דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק Genesis 14:15 8t.; דַּרְמֶשֶׂק 1 Chronicles 18:5 3t. ch; דַּרְמָ֑שֶׂק2 Chronicles 24:23; 28:5; דּוּמֶּשֶׂק 2 Kings 16:10; דְּמֶשֶׁק Amos 3:12 see following, Vrss. דַּמֶּשֶׂק; — ancient Aramaean city, situated latitude 33 degrees 30 minutes north, longitude 36 degrees 15 minutes east, in plain east of Hermon & southeast of Anti-Lebanon; on the Nahr Baradâ (Greek Chrysorrhoas); modern Dimish‡ & Esh-Sham, RobBR iii. 440 ff. BdPal 307; Damascus Genesis 14:15; Amos 5:27; 1 Kings 11:24 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 14:28; Song of Solomon 7:5; so also probably Genesis 15:2 (perhaps gloss compare Di), (Amos 3:12 see following); a trading-centre Ezekiel 27:18; as capital & residence of king of Aram 1 Kings 15:18 2 Chronicles 16:2, compare 1 Kings 20:34; 2 Kings 16:9-10, (twice in verse); 16:11 (twice in verse); 16:12; 2 Chronicles 28:5; Isaiah 7:8 (twice in verse); 8:4; 10:9 (compare PetersHebraica. April 1885, 242) 17:1 (twice in verse); 17:3; Jeremiah 49:23-24, 27; including also surrounding territory Ezekiel 47:16-17, compare 47:18; 48:1, see ד ׳מִדְבַּ֫רָה 1 Kings 19:15; ד ׳נַהֲרוֺת 2 Kings 5:12; = kingdom Amos 1:3, 5 compare Zechariah 9:1; once (late) ד ׳מֶלֶךְ2 Chronicles 24:23; note also ד ׳אֲרַם 2 Samuel 8:5-6, = 1 Chronicles 18:5-6, further ד ׳אֱלֹהֵי2 Chronicles 28:23 ("" אֲרָם מַלְכֵי אֱלֹהֵי). |
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