Dam
Dam
(, mother), the female parent of young birds (Deu 22:6-7), or lambs (Exo 22:30; Lev 22:27). With the Mosaic regulations of merciful treatment toward these creatures spoken of in these passages, compare the similar ordinance respecting boiling a kid in its own mother’s milk (Exo 23:19), and the treatise of Heumann, De legis paradoxe (Gott. 1748, and in his Syllog. Diss. 2; 282 sq.). SEE BEAST.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Dam
(, ’em, ordinary Hebrew word for mother): Hebrew law prohibited the destruction of the dam and the young of birds at the same time, commanding that if the young be taken from a nest the dam be allowed to escape (Deu 22:6, Deu 22:7). In the same spirit it enjoined the taking of an animal for slaughter before it had been seven days with its dam (Exo 22:30; Lev 22:27; compare Exo 23:19).