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דְּבּוֹרָה

Dᵉbôwrâh · H1683 · Hebrew · proper noun · 10 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Meanings

  1. Deborah

    Woman; nurse of Rebekah

    Examples

    Genesis 35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named Allon-bacuth.

  2. Deborah

    Woman; wife of Lappidoth; prophetess, warrior and judge of Israel in the pre-monarchical period

    Examples

    Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

    Judges 4:5 She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went up to her for judgment.

    Judges 4:9 She said, “I will certainly go with you; however, the fame shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
This code is inherited from the shared listing with the related noun for a bee (דְּבוֹרָה (dᵉbôwrâh, H1682)) rather than an independent feature of the personal name Deborah's own sense.
Names of People003001007
דְּבוֹרָה names Deborah, the prophetess and judge, as at Judges 4:4 — "Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time" — and Judges 4:14 — "Deborah said to Barak, 'Arise!'" The same name also belongs to Rebekah's nurse at Genesis 35:8.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1683. Deborah II. דְּבוֺרָה proper name, feminine (bee) — 1 the nurse of Rebekah Gen…
H1683. Deborah
II. דְּבוֺרָה proper name, feminine (bee) —
1 the nurse of Rebekah Gen 35:8.
2 the prophetess Jdg 4:4-5, Jdg 4:9, Jdg 4:10, Jdg 4:14; Jdg 5:1, Jdg 5:7, Jdg 5:12, Jdg 5:15.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

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