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title: זְבוּב — fly · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זְבוּב (2070), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: fly. BDB 1906: n.m. fly II.4. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זְבוּב

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«זְבוּב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fly** — 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:** 2070 · **BDB:** זְבוּב

### Glosses

flies (1); fly (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2070/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. fly II.4 [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2070/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 10:1 fly (as moving to and fro in the air? cf. Fl NHWB i. 438 b; NH id., Assyrian zumbu, DlS 63 f.; Arabic دُبَابٌ, Aramaic דִּיבָבָא, ܕܶܒܳܐ, ܕܶܒܳܒܳܐ );—lit. only זְבוּבֵי מָוֶת Ec 10:1 i.e. dead flies; so AV RV Hi Now al.; \> 𝔊 De al. death-bringing, deadly flies; זְבוּב metaph. of Egyptian army Is 7:18 (‖ דְּבוֹרָה, bee, of Assyrian); on בַּעַל זְבוּב v. בַּעַל II.4, p. 127 supr.

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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 (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 «זְבוּב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2070/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 10:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.1/)

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זְב֣וּבֵי מָ֔וֶת יַבְאִ֥ישׁ יַבִּ֖יעַ שֶׁ֣מֶן רוֹקֵ֑חַ יָקָ֛ר מֵחָכְמָ֥ה מִכָּב֖וֹד סִכְל֥וּת מְעָֽט׃

*Word for word:* flies of.death it.causes.to.stink it.ferments \[the\].oil of.a.perfumer \[is\].weighty more than.wisdom more than.honor folly a.little

*JPS 1917:* Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour.

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[Isaiah 7:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.18/)

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וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא יִשְׁרֹ֤ק יְהוָה֙ לַזְּב֔וּב אֲשֶׁ֥ר בִּקְצֵ֖ה יְאֹרֵ֣י מִצְרָ֑יִם וְלַ֨דְּבוֹרָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּאֶ֥רֶץ אַשּֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be in the day (the) that he.will.whistle Yahweh for the fly which \[is\].at the.end of.the.canals of.Egypt and for the bee which \[is\].in the.land of.Assyria

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

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