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title: דָּבַב — move gently · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּבַב (1680), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: move gently. BDB 1906: vb. move gently, glide, glide over. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּבַב

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«דָּבַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **move gently** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1680 · **BDB:** דָּבַב

### Glosses

\[which\].flows.gently (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

move gently [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1680/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. move gently, glide, glide over [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1680/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. move gently, glide, glide over (NH דָּבַב flow slowly, drop; Arabic دَبَّ walk leisurely, gently, دَابَّةٌ any animal that walks or creeps, cf. דֹּב; Assyrian dabâbu, plot, plan, COT Gloss., cf. דִּבָּה)—only Pt. דּוֹבֵב שִׂפְתֵי יְשֵׁנִים Ct 7:10, of wine gliding over the lips of sleepers; (ד׳ שְׂפָתַי וְשִׁנָּי֑ i.e. my lips and teeth 𝔊 𝔖 Aq Gei Urschrift 405).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּבַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1680/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 7:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.10/)

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וְחִכֵּ֕ךְ כְּיֵ֥ין הַטּ֛וֹב הוֹלֵ֥ךְ לְדוֹדִ֖י לְמֵישָׁרִ֑ים דּוֹבֵ֖ב שִׂפְתֵ֥י יְשֵׁנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and mouth your \[be\].like.(the) wine of.(the) good \[which\].goes for lover my to smoothness(es) \[which\].flows.gently \[the\].lips of.sleepers

*JPS 1917:* And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.'

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