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title: דֶּגֶל — standard · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דֶּגֶל (1714), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: standard. BDB 1906: n.m. standard, banner. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דֶּגֶל

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«דֶּגֶל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **standard** — 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:** 14 times · **Key:** 1714 · **BDB:** דֶּ֫גֶל

### Glosses

the.standard (7); standard (3); standards (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

standard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1714/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. standard, banner [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1714/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Nu 10:14 standard, banner (Assyrian diglu DlHA 40 Pr 58; cf. also Di Nu 2:2); cstr. דֶּגֶל Nu 2:3 + 7 times; sf. דִּגְלוֹ Nu 1:52 + 2 times; pl. sf. דִּגְלֵיהֶם Nu 2:17, 31, 34;—standard, partic. of separate tribes of Isr. ד׳ מחנה יהודה etc. Nu 2:3, 10, 18, 25; 10:14, 18, 22, 25; cf. also 1:52; 2:2 (‖ אֹתֹת) v 17, 31, 34 (all P); fig. Ct 2:4 ודגלו עלי אהבה.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 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 «דֶּגֶל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1714/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 2:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.4/)

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הֱבִיאַ֙נִי֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית הַיָּ֔יִן וְדִגְל֥וֹ עָלַ֖י אַהֲבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* he has.brought.me into the.house of.(the) wine and standard his over me \[is\].love

*JPS 1917:* He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.

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[Numbers 10:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.18/)

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וְנָסַ֗ע דֶּ֛גֶל מַחֲנֵ֥ה רְאוּבֵ֖ן לְצִבְאֹתָ֑ם וְעַל־צְבָא֔וֹ אֱלִיצ֖וּר בֶּן־שְׁדֵיאֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* and it.set.out the.standard of.the.camp of.Reuben to their.military groups and.\[was\] over group its.military Elizur the.son of.Shedeur

*JPS 1917:* And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

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