דֹּבֶא
dôbeʼ · H1679 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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strength, security
Meaning unsure; probably: state of being strong and powerful, and therefore secure
ExamplesDeuteronomy 33:25 “Your bars will be iron and bronze, And as your days, so will your strength be.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יוֹםday, time 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- כֹּחַ kôach · H3581 · strength, power, ability
- Common Hebrew term for strength/power that overlaps semantically with דֹּבֶא; both denote strength but כֹּחַ is far more frequent and standard
- עֹז ʻôz · H5797 · strong, mighty, strength
- Hebrew synonym for strength/might; often used of physical or military strength, semantically overlapping with דֹּבֶא
- חַיִל chayil · H2428 · substance, great
- Hebrew term for strength/might/power (among other senses); can denote physical or military strength as a near synonym to דֹּבֶא
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἰσχύς ischýs · G2479 · capability, strength
- Greek translation equivalent for 'strength' as physical or abstract power; standard LXX rendering for Hebrew strength terms
- δύναμις dýnamis · G1411 · ability, capability, power
- Greek equivalent for strength/power; commonly used in LXX for Hebrew strength vocabulary
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Strong002001001063
- The noun denotes strength or vigor, used in Moses' blessing of Asher promising that his strength will last as long as his days.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1679. dobe [דֹּ֫בֶא] noun [masculine] perhaps rest, but sense very doubtful (? Arabic…
[דֹּ֫בֶא] noun [masculine] perhaps rest, but sense very doubtful (? Arabic rest, †amus; ᵑ7 ᵑ6 ᵐ5Onk strength, reading perhaps רבאך compare Samaritan רביך, see Di) דָּבְֶאךָ׃ וּכְיָמֶיךָ Deu 33:25.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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