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title: דֹּב — bear · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דֹּב (1677), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: bear. BDB 1906: n.m. bear. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דֹּב

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«דֹּב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bear** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 1677 · **BDB:** דֹּב²

### Glosses

a.bear (4); bear (4); \[female\].bears (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bear [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1677/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. bear [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1677/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 28:15, f. 2 K 2:24 (seld.) bear (from soft or gliding motion, NH id., Ethiopic ድብ Assyrian dabû(?) DlS 55; Aramaic דּוּבָּא, ܕܶܒܳܐ; Arabic دُبٌّ, دُبَّةٌ, is however a loan-word cf. Hom NS 301 f.);—abs. דֹּב Am 5:19 + 5 times; דּוֹב 1 S 17:34 + 2 times; pl. דֻּבִּים 2 K 2:24; Is 59:11;—bear, female 2 K 2:24; 2 S 17:8; Pr 17:12; Ho 13:8 cf. Is 11:7; undetermined 1 S 17:34, 36, 37 Am 5:19 Pr 28:15; Is 59:11; La 3:10 (on art. 1 S 17:34; Am 5:19 cf. RSSem i 119 n.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דֹּב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1677/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 3:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.10/)

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דֹּ֣ב אֹרֵ֥ב הוּא֙ לִ֔י אֲרִ֖י בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.bear \[which\].lies.in.wait he to me a.lion in secret.places

*JPS 1917:* He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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[Proverbs 28:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.15/)

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אֲרִי־נֹ֭הֵם וְדֹ֣ב שׁוֹקֵ֑ק מֹשֵׁ֥ל רָ֝שָׁ֗ע עַ֣ל עַם־דָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.lion roaring and a.bear rushing a.ruler wicked over a.people poor

*JPS 1917:* As a roaring lion, and a ravenous bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

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