זְבוּב
zᵉbûwb · H2070 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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fly
An insect with large composite eyes and a single pair of wings; Musca domestica; these insects converge in swarms on (rotting) food, dung, and household garbage; associated with large quantities
ExamplesEcclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies turn a perfumer’s oil rancid, so a little foolishness is more potent than wisdom and honor.
Isaiah 7:18 On that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the canals of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָוֶתdeath 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָצֶהend, edge, border 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּאַשׁto become foul 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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 1 entry
- Swarming Creatures001001002006
- זְבוּב denotes the fly, the small swarming insect Solomon uses as a proverb of how a little foolishness spoils honor, and that God summons against Egypt.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2070. zebub זְבוּב noun masculineEcc 10:1 fly (as moving to and fro in the air? compare…
זְבוּב noun masculineEcc 10:1 fly (as moving to and fro in the air? compare Fl NHWBi. 438 b; Late Hebrew id., Assyrian zumbu, DlS 63 f.; Arabic , Aramaic דִּיבָבָא, , ); — literal only מָוֶת זְבוּבֵי Ecc 10:1 i.e. dead flies; so AV RV Hi Now and others; > ᵐ5 De and others death-bringing, deadly flies; זְבוּב metaphor of Egyptian army Isa 7:18 (|| דְּבוֺרָה, bee, of Assyrian); on זְבוּב בַּעַל see בַּעַל II. 4, p. 127 above
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
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