Definition

to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H1724 (דָּהַם), H1820 (דָּמָה));

Where the KJV renders it

• cease
• be cut down (off)
• forbear
• hold peace
• quiet self
• rest
• be silent
• keep (put to) silence
• be (stand) still
• tarry
• wait

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.