Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #1682 - דְּבוֹרָה deborah (a bee)

Original Word:	דְּבוֹרָה
Transliteration:	deborah
Definition:	a bee
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(deb-o-raw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bee

Or (shortened) dborah {deb-o-raw'}; from dabar (in the sense of orderly motion); the bee (from its systematic instincts) -- bee.

see HEBREW dabar

Englishman's Concordance

1) bee
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H1696 (in the sense of orderly motion)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 399f

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. דְּבוֺרָהnoun femininebee (compare Arabic

, swarm of bees, Aramaic דַּבַּרְתָּא, Syriac

) Isaiah 7:18; plural דְּבֹרִיםDeuteronomy 1:44; Judges 14:8; Psalm 118:12. Read also דְּבֹרוֺits bees1 Samuel 14:26 for ᵑ0דְּבַשׁ compare ᵐ5 We Dr.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1682. דְּבוֹרִים (deborah) — 4 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 1:44
HEB:כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ינָה הַדְּבֹרִ֑ים וַֽיַּכְּת֥וּ אֶתְכֶ֛ם
NAS: you and chased you as bees do,
KJV: you, and chased you, as bees do,
INT: after do bees and crushed Seir

Judges 14:8
HEB:וְהִנֵּ֨ה עֲדַ֧ת דְּבוֹרִ֛ים בִּגְוִיַּ֥ת הָאַרְיֵ֖ה
NAS: a swarm of bees and honey
KJV: and, behold, [there was] a swarm of bees and honey
INT: and behold A swarm of bees the body of the lion

Psalm 118:12
HEB: סַבּ֤וּנִי כִדְבוֹרִ֗ים דֹּ֭עֲכוּ כְּאֵ֣שׁ
NAS: They surrounded me like bees; They were extinguished
KJV: They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched
INT: surrounded bees were extinguished A fire

Isaiah 7:18
HEB:יְאֹרֵ֣י מִצְרָ֑יִם וְלַ֨דְּבוֹרָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּאֶ֥רֶץ
NAS: of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land
KJV: of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land
INT: of the rivers of Egypt the bee is in land

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