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title: דּוֹנַג — wax · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוֹנַג (1749), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: wax. BDB 1906: n.m. wax. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דּוֹנַג

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«דּוֹנַג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wax** — 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:** 1749 · **BDB:** דּוֹנַג

### Glosses

wax (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wax [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1749/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. wax [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1749/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. wax, דּוֹנַג Mi 1:4 + 2 times; דּוֹנָ֑ג ψ 22:15—always in simile, of melting; at theophany hills melt like wax ψ 97:5; like wax before fire Mi 1:4; wicked perish as wax melteth before fire ψ 68:3; heart melteth like wax ψ 22:15 (simile of fear, despair). On ד׳ in ψ 118:12 cf. Bae Checrit. n.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דּוֹנַג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1749/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 68:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.3/)

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כְּהִנְדֹּ֥ף עָשָׁ֗ן תִּ֫נְדֹּ֥ף כְּהִמֵּ֣ס דּ֭וֹנַג מִפְּנֵי־אֵ֑שׁ יֹאבְד֥וּ רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים מִפְּנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* as is.driven.about smoke may.you.drive.\[them\].about as melts wax from before a.fire may.they.perish wicked.\[people\] from before God

*JPS 1917:* As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

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[Psalms 97:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.5/)

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הָרִ֗ים כַּדּוֹנַ֗ג נָ֭מַסּוּ מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה מִ֝לִּפְנֵ֗י אֲד֣וֹן כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* mountains like (the) wax they.melt from before Yahweh from before the.lord of.all the earth

*JPS 1917:* The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

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