דִּמְעָה
dim.ah (H1832)
tears
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word "דִּמְעָה" (dim.ah) is translated as 'tears.' This physical action can be emotional, resulting from experiences such as sorrow, pain, or joy. Its occurrence in the Bible is 23 times, indicating its significance in communicating human emotions. The data does not provide further information about the specific types of emotions or situations associated with "דִּמְעָה." However, the repetition of its usage across the biblical text implies its importance as a common human experience. The presence of tears in the biblical narrative may convey depth of feeling, intensity of emotion, or an individual's connection to their emotional state. The 23 occurrences of "דִּמְעָה" emphasize the role of physical expressions of emotion in the biblical text. This data suggests that tears are a tangible representation of the complex range of human emotions, allowing for a shared understanding and expression of emotional experiences in ancient and modern contexts.
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“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my 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 wound.
Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.
She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.
My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let the your eyes rest.
“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.