דְּבוֹרָה
dᵉbôwrâh · H1682 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- BeeInsects, spiders, and worms6 verses
Meanings
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as a metaphor for an army of well-organized enemies
A flying insect that collects nectar from flowers and converts it into honey; lives in swarms made up of many thousands of insects; stings only when threatened; with connotations ranging from positive (food producing) to negative
ExamplesDeuteronomy 1:44 And the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and they scattered you from Seir to Hormah.
Judges 14:8 When he returned later to take her, he turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as 2
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵדָהcongregation, community 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Swarming Creatures001001002006
- דְּבוֹרָה denotes the bee as a swarming creature, as at Deuteronomy 1:44 — "the Amorites... came out against you and chased you as bees do" — and Psalm 118:12 — "They surrounded me like bees."
- Names of People003001007
- This code is inherited from the shared listing with the personal name Deborah (דְּבּוֹרָה (Dᵉbôwrâh, H1683)), which shares this word's spelling meaning "bee," rather than an independent feature of this common noun's own attested sense.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1682. deborah I. דְּבוֺרָה noun feminine bee (compare Arabic , swarm of bees, Aramaic…
I. דְּבוֺרָה noun feminine bee (compare Arabic , swarm of bees, Aramaic דַּבַּרְתָּא, Syriac ) Isa 7:18; plural דְּבֹרִים Deu 1:44; Jdg 14:8; Psa 118:12. Read also דְּבֹרוֺ its bees 1Sa 14:26 for דְּבַשׁ ᵑ0 compare ᵐ5 We Dr.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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