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title: דֹּבֶר — pasture · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דֹּבֶר (1699), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: pasture. BDB 1906: pasture. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דֹּבֶר

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«דֹּבֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pasture** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 1699 · **BDB:** דֹּ֫בֶר

### Glosses

pasture (1); their.own (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pasture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1699/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pasture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1699/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pasture (cf. Aramaic דַּבְרָא, Syriac ܕܰܒܪܳܐ )—sf. כְּעֵדֶר בְּתוֹךְ הַדָּֽבְרוֹ as a flock in the midst of its pasture Mi 2:12 (art. with sf., cf. Ges§ 127, 4 b, who attaches ו as conj. to foll. word); וְרָעוּ כְבָשִׂים כְּדָבְרָם and lambs shall feed as (in) their pasture Is 5:17.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דֹּבֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1699/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 5:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.17/)

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וְרָע֥וּ כְבָשִׂ֖ים כְּדָבְרָ֑ם וְחָרְב֥וֹת מֵחִ֖ים גָּרִ֥ים יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.graze lambs like their.own pasture and.\[the\] ruins of.fatlings \[those.who\].sojourn they.will.eat

*JPS 1917:* Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

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[Micah 2:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.12/)

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אָסֹ֨ף אֶאֱסֹ֜ף יַעֲקֹ֣ב כֻּלָּ֗ךְ קַבֵּ֤ץ אֲקַבֵּץ֙ שְׁאֵרִ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יַ֥חַד אֲשִׂימֶ֖נּוּ כְּצֹ֣אן בָּצְרָ֑ה כְּעֵ֙דֶר֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַדָּֽבְר֔וֹ תְּהִימֶ֖נָה מֵאָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* surely.(gather) I.will.gather O.Jacob of.you all surely.(assemble) I.will.assemble the.remnant of.Israel together I will.make.it like sheep of.a.sheepfold like a.flock in the.midst of.(the) pasture its they.will.be.distraught from humankind

*JPS 1917:* I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will render them all as sheep in a fold; as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

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