Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2070 - זְבוּב zebub (a fly)

Original Word:	זְבוּב
Transliteration:	zebub
Definition:	a fly
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(zeb-oob')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

fly

From an unused root (meaning to flit); a fly (especially one of a stinging nature) -- fly.

Englishman's Concordance

1) fly
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root (meaning to flit)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 523a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

זְבוּבnoun masculine^{Ecclesiastes 10:1}fly (as moving to and fro in the air? compare Fl NHWB^{i. 438 b}; Late Hebrew id., Assyrian zumbu, Dl^{S 63 f.}; Arabic

, Aramaic דִּיבָבָא,

); — literal only זְבוּבֵי מָוֶתEcclesiastes 10:1 i.e. dead flies; so AV RV Hi Now and others; > ᵐ5 De and others death-bringing, deadly flies; זְבוּב metaphor of Egyptian army Isaiah 7:18 ("" דְּבוֺרָה, bee, of Assyrian); on בַּעַלזְבוּב see בַּעַל II. 4, p. 127 above

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2070. זְבוּב (zebub) — 2 Occurrences

Ecclesiastes 10:1
HEB: זְב֣וּבֵי מָ֔וֶת יַבְאִ֥ישׁ
NAS: Dead flies make a perfumer's oil
KJV: Dead flies cause the ointment
INT:flies Dead stink

Isaiah 7:18
HEB:יִשְׁרֹ֤ק יְהוָה֙ לַזְּב֔וּב אֲשֶׁ֥ר בִּקְצֵ֖ה
NAS: will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part
KJV: shall hiss for the fly that [is] in the uttermost part
INT: will whistle the LORD the fly is in remotest

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