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title: נֹפֶת — flowing honey · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֹפֶת (5317), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: flowing honey. BDB 1906: n.m. flowing honey, honey from the comb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֹפֶת

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«נֹפֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flowing honey** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 5317 · **BDB:** נֹ֫פֶת

### Glosses

honey (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flowing honey [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5317/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. flowing honey, honey from the comb [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5317/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 24:13 flowing honey, honey from the comb (Ph. נפת CIS i. 166, 8 b);—נ׳ abs. Pr 5:3 + 3 times, cstr. ψ 19:11;—sweet Pr 24:13 (‖ דְּבַשׁ), cf. 27:7; fig. of sweet words Pr 5:3, and perhaps Ct 4:11 (Bu of kisses; ‖ דְּבַשׁ, חָלָב); in full נ׳ צוּפִים ψ 19:11 honey of (the) combs (comp. with מִשְׁפְּטֵי י׳; ‖ דְּבַשׁ).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֹפֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5317/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 27:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.7/)

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נֶ֣פֶשׁ שְׂ֭בֵעָה תָּב֣וּס נֹ֑פֶת וְנֶ֥פֶשׁ רְ֝עֵבָ֗ה כָּל־מַ֥ר מָתֽוֹק׃

*Word for word:* an.appetite satisfied it.treads.down honey and an.appetite hungry every bitter.\[thing\] \[is\].sweet

*JPS 1917:* The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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[Proverbs 5:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.3/)

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כִּ֤י נֹ֣פֶת תִּ֭טֹּפְנָה שִׂפְתֵ֣י זָרָ֑ה וְחָלָ֖ק מִשֶּׁ֣מֶן חִכָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) honey they.drip \[the\].lips of.a.strange.\[woman\] and.\[is\] smooth more than.oil mouth her

*JPS 1917:* For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

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