Words the Bible translates as tears
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- dakru, dakruonδάκρυ, δάκρυονa tear: the drop that falls from a weeping eye, and so, in the plural, weeping made visible.
- dimahדִּמְעָהtears: the water shed in weeping, and by extension the weeping and grief itself
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