דַּמֶּ֫שֶׂק proper name, of a location Damascus (Assyrian Dimaš‡i, Dimas‡i, DlPa 280 SchrCOT [Gen 15:2] & ABK 323 JägerBAS ii. 281 f. Arabic , ; Aramaic ᵑ7Onk, etc. דמשק, Ps-Jon דרמשק; ) — דַּמֶּשֶׂק [1Kgs 11:24] + 28 t.; דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק [Gen 14:15] + 8 t.; דַּרְמֶשֶׂק [1Chr 18:5] + 3 t. ch; דַּרְמָ֑שֶׂק [2Chr 24:23]; [2Chr 28:5] דּוּמֶּשֶׂק [2Kgs 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 [Gen 14:15]; [Amos 5:27]; [1Kgs 11:24] (twice in verse); [2Kgs 14:28]; [Song 7:5] so also probably [Gen 15:2] (perhaps gloss compare Di), ([Amos 3:12] see following); a trading-centre [Ezek 27:18] as capital & residence of king of Aram [1Kgs 15:18] = [2Chr 16:2], compare [1Kgs 20:34]; [2Kgs 16:9]; [2Kgs 16:10] (twice in verse); [2Kgs 16:11] (twice in verse); [2Kgs 16:12]; [2Chr 28:5]; [Isa 7:8] (twice in verse); [Isa 8:4]; [Isa 10:9] (compare PetersHebraica. April 1885, 242) [Isa 17:1] (twice in verse); [Isa 17:3]; [Jer 49:23]; [Jer 49:24]; [Jer 49:27] including also surrounding territory [Ezek 47:16]; [Ezek 47:17] compare v[Ezek 47:18]; [Ezek 48:1], see ׳מִדְבַּ֫רָה ד [1Kgs 19:15] ׳נַהֲרוֺת ד [2Kgs 5:12] = kingdom [Amos 1:3]; [Amos 1:5] compare [Zech 9:1] once (late) ׳מֶלֶךְ ד [2Chr 24:23] note also ׳אֲרַם ד [2Sam 8:5]; [2Sam 8:6] = [1Chr 18:5]; [1Chr 18:6] further ׳אֱלֹהֵי ד [2Chr 28:23] (|| אֱלֹהֵי מַלְכֵי אֲרָם).
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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