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title: דְּבוֹרָה — Deborah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּבוֹרָה (1683), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: Deborah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. 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: **Deborah** — 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:** 10 times · **Key:** 1683 · **BDB:** דְּבוֹרָה²

### Glosses

Deborah (8); O.Deborah (1); of.Deborah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Deborah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1683/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1683/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (bee)— the nurse of Rebekah Gn 35:8. the prophetess Ju 4:4, 5, 9, 10, 14; 5:1, 7, 12, 15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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/1491/1683/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 5:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.1/)

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וַתָּ֣שַׁר דְּבוֹרָ֔ה וּבָרָ֖ק בֶּן־אֲבִינֹ֑עַם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and she.sang Deborah and Barak the.son of.Abinoam on the day (the) that (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying:

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[Judges 5:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.7/)

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חָדְל֧וּ פְרָז֛וֹן בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל חָדֵ֑לּוּ עַ֤ד שַׁקַּ֙מְתִּי֙ דְּבוֹרָ֔ה שַׁקַּ֥מְתִּי אֵ֖ם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* they.ceased rural.people in Israel they.ceased until that I.arose Deborah that I.arose a.mother in Israel

*JPS 1917:* The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, until that thou didst arise, Deborah, that thou didst arise a mother in Israel.

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