UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: δαμάω · δάμαλις

Sense 1: to control, to bring under control, to hold in check

Semantic entry: 37.1

Semantic domains: Control, Rule

Subdomains: Control, Restrain

Definition: to bring under control and to continue to restrain

Notes: In many languages it may be difficult to speak of ‘bringing a person under control.’ It may therefore be more appropriate to use some such phrase as ‘not allow a person to do just what he wants’ or ‘make a person behave’ or ‘make a person obey.’ In speaking of animals, one may render RV JAM 3:7 · LV JAM 3:7 · Read together JAM 3:7 as ‘all kinds of wild animals … can be made to obey a person.’

MRK 5:4: RV MRK 5:4 · LV MRK 5:4 · Read together MRK 5:4

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OET-RV MRK 5:4

4 because he had often been tied up in the past with shackles and chains but had always pulled the chains apart and smashed the shackles, and no one was able to subdue him.

OET-LV MRK 5:4

4 because _of that him often to _have _bound with _shackles and chains, and the chains to _have _torn _apart by him and the shackles to _have _broken, and no _one was _able to _tame him.

JAM 3:7: RV JAM 3:7 · LV JAM 3:7 · Read together JAM 3:7

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OET-RV JAM 3:7

7 Every kind of wild animal and birds and reptiles and sea creature can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind

OET-LV JAM 3:7

7 For/Because every nature of _wild _beasts both and of _birds, of _reptiles both and of _sea creatures, is _being _tamed and has _been _tamed by _the nature the human,

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: RV MRK 5:4 · LV MRK 5:4 · Read together MRK 5:4

JAM: RV JAM 3:7–8 · LV JAM 3:7–8 · Read together JAM 3:7–8

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

δαμάζω

Form 1

Sense 1: to control, to bring under control, to hold in check