da.mah describes being brought to an end or destroyed, and in one clause it marks a comparison.

The occurrences most often portray persons, peoples, or places as destroyed or brought to ruin; a second recurring use concerns something ceasing or not ceasing. One Qal occurrence places the speaker's comparison beside the daughter of Zion.

1. Brought to ruin or destruction · dominant

   Niphal forms occur in clauses of devastation: in Isaiah 15:1 the APB renders Ar and Kir of Moab as “ruined in the night and ceased,” while Isaiah 6:5 renders the first-person form “I am undone.” In Hosea 4:6, Jeremiah 47:5, and Obadiah 1:5, the surrounding clauses likewise speak of destruction or a devastated place.

   Hosea 4:6Isaiah 15:1Isaiah 6:5Jeremiah 47:5Obadiah 1:5Hosea 4:5
2. Ceasing or being stopped · common

   In Hosea 10:15, two Niphal infinitive-absolute forms stand in the announcement that Israel's king “shall cease, shall cease”; Hosea 10:7 similarly places a Niphal participle in the clause about Samaria's king. Qal forms in Jeremiah 14:17 and Lamentations 3:49 occur with the request or statement that tears do not cease, and Zephaniah 1:11 says the merchant people have ceased.

   Hosea 10:15Hosea 10:7Jeremiah 14:17Lamentations 3:49Zephaniah 1:11
3. Making a comparison · rare

   In Jeremiah 6:2, the Qal perfect first-person form occurs in the clause that the speaker has compared “the lovely and the delicate one” to the daughter of Zion. The APB presents the clause as an explicit comparison.

   Jeremiah 6:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the relevant clauses with “cease,” “destroyed,” “undone,” “ruined,” and “compared.” Because it translates whole verses rather than aligning individual words, these renderings show the clauses' contexts rather than fixed English equivalents.