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title: דְּבוֹרָה — bee · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּבוֹרָה (1682), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: bee. BDB 1906: n.f. bee. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּבוֹרָה

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«דְּבוֹרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bee** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 1682 · **BDB:** דְּבוֹרָה

### Glosses

bees (2); bee (1); of.bees (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bee [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1682/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. bee [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1682/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bee (cf. Arabic دِبْرٌ, swarm of bees, Aramaic דַּבַּרְתָּא, Syriac ܕܶܒܘܽܪܝܺܬܳܐ ) Is 7:18; pl. דְּבֹרִים Dt 1:44 Ju 14:8 ψ 118:12. Read also דְּבֹרוֹ its bees 1 S 14:26 for MT דְּבַשׁ cf. 𝔊 We Dr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּבוֹרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1682/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 118:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.12/)

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סַבּ֤וּנִי כִדְבוֹרִ֗ים דֹּ֭עֲכוּ כְּאֵ֣שׁ קוֹצִ֑ים בְּשֵׁ֥ם יְ֝הוָ֗ה כִּ֣י אֲמִילַֽם׃

*Word for word:* they surrounded.me like bees they.were.extinguished like a.fire of.thorns in the.name of.Yahweh (dm) I fended.them.off

*JPS 1917:* They compass me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns; verily, in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

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[Judges 14:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.8/)

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וַיָּ֤שָׁב מִיָּמִים֙ לְקַחְתָּ֔הּ וַיָּ֣סַר לִרְא֔וֹת אֵ֖ת מַפֶּ֣לֶת הָאַרְיֵ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֨ה עֲדַ֧ת דְּבוֹרִ֛ים בִּגְוִיַּ֥ת הָאַרְיֵ֖ה וּדְבָֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.returned from days to take her and he.turned.aside to see (et) the.carcass of the.lion and there! a.swarm of.bees \[was\].in the.carcass of the.lion and honey

*JPS 1917:* And after a while he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

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