Word Study · Strong's H1698 · Hebrew
דֶּבֶר
deber
deh'-ber
“a pestilence”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a pestilence
Rendered in the KJV as
murrain, pestilence, plague.
- 49occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 14 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 36inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 49 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 36
- וּבַדָּ֑בֶר4
- דֶּ֖בֶר3
- דֶּ֙בֶר֙3
- הַדָּ֑בֶר3
- בַּדֶּ֣בֶר2
- דֶּ֣בֶר2
- וּבַדֶּ֖בֶר2
- וּבַדָּֽבֶר׃2
- בְּדֶ֥בֶר1
- בְּדֶ֣בֶר1
- בַדֶּ֖בֶר1
- בַּדֶּ֖בֶר1
and 24 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 17
- and by the pestilence9
- pestilence8
- and pestilence5
- the pestilence5
- a pestilence4
- by the pestilence3
- with the pestilence3
- and the pestilence2
- and with the pestilence2
- [are] thorns your1
- and from [the] pestilence1
- and of pestilence1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 10
- noun · masculine singular12
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular11
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular7
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular5
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5
- preposition + noun · masculine singular3
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmsa · 12
- HC/Rd/Ncmsa · 11
- HRd/Ncmsa · 7
- HC/Ncmsa · 5
- HTd/Ncmsa · 5
- HR/Ncmsa · 3
- HC/R/Ncmsa · 2
- HC/Td/Ncmsa · 2
- HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 1
- HR/Ncmsc · 1
All 49, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Jeremiah17 of 49 · 35%
- Ezekiel12 of 49 · 24%
- Exodus3 of 49 · 6%
- 2 Chronicles3 of 49 · 6%
- Psalms3 of 49 · 6%
Jeremiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Exodus3 occurrences
- Exodus 5:3בַּדֶּ֖בֶרbadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singular“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”here: with the pestilence
- Exodus 9:3דֶּ֖בֶרdevernoun · masculine singularthen the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.here: a pestilence
- Exodus 9:15בַּדָּ֑בֶרbadaverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularFor by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.here: with the pestilence
2 Samuel2 occurrences
- 2 Samuel 24:13דֶּ֙בֶר֙devernoun · masculine singularSo Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”here: pestilence
- 2 Samuel 24:15דֶּ֙בֶר֙devernoun · masculine singularSo the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.here: pestilence
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 21:12וְדֶ֙בֶר֙vedeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularbetween three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”here: and pestilence
- 1 Chronicles 21:14דֶּ֖בֶרdevernoun · masculine singularSo the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.here: a pestilence
2 Chronicles3 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 6:28דֶּ֣בֶרdevernoun · masculine singularWhen famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,here: pestilence
- 2 Chronicles 7:13דֶּ֖בֶרdevernoun · masculine singularIf I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,here: pestilence
- 2 Chronicles 20:9וְדֶ֣בֶרvedeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’here: and pestilence
Psalms3 occurrences
- Psalms 78:50לַדֶּ֥בֶרladeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularHe cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.here: to the pestilence
- Psalms 91:3מִדֶּ֥בֶרmideverpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.here: from a plague of
- Psalms 91:6מִ֭דֶּבֶרmideverpreposition + noun · masculine singularnor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.here: from a plague
Jeremiah17 occurrences
- Jeremiah 14:12וּבַדֶּ֔בֶרuvadeverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularAlthough they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”here: and by the pestilence
- Jeremiah 21:6בְּדֶ֥בֶרbedeverpreposition + noun · masculine singularI will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’here: by a pestilence
- Jeremiah 21:7הַדֶּ֣בֶר׀hadeverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’here: the pestilence
- Jeremiah 21:9וּבַדָּ֑בֶרuvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularWhoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.here: and by the pestilence
- Jeremiah 24:10הַדָּ֑בֶרhadaverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularAnd I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”here: the pestilence
- Jeremiah 27:8וּבַדֶּ֜בֶרuvadeverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularAs for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.here: and with the pestilence
- Jeremiah 27:13וּבַדָּ֑בֶר֙uvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularWhy should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?here: and by the pestilence
- Jeremiah 28:8וּלְדָֽבֶר׃uledaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singularThe prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.here: and of pestilence
- Jeremiah 29:17הַדָּ֑בֶרhadaverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularthis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.here: the pestilence
- Jeremiah 29:18וּבַדָּ֑בֶרuvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularI will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.here: and with the pestilence
- Jeremiah 32:24וְהַדָּ֑בֶרvehadaverconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularSee how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!here: and the pestilence
- Jeremiah 32:36וּבַדָּֽבֶר׃uvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularNow therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:here: and by the pestilence
- Jeremiah 34:17הַדֶּ֣בֶרhadeverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularTherefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.here: the pestilence
- Jeremiah 38:2וּבַדָּ֑בֶרuvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.here: and by the pestilence
- Jeremiah 42:17וּבַדָּ֑בֶרuvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularSo all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’here: and by the pestilence
- Jeremiah 42:22וּבַדֶּ֖בֶרuvadeverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularNow therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”here: and by the pestilence
- Jeremiah 44:13וּבַדָּֽבֶר׃uvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularI will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,here: and by the pestilence
Ezekiel12 occurrences
- Ezekiel 5:12בַּדֶּ֣בֶרbadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularA third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.here: by the pestilence
- Ezekiel 5:17וְדֶ֥בֶרvedeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularI will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”here: and pestilence
- Ezekiel 6:11וּבַדֶּ֖בֶרuvadeverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singularThis is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.here: and by the pestilence
- Ezekiel 6:12בַּדֶּ֣בֶרbadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularHe who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.here: by the pestilence
- Ezekiel 7:15וְהַדֶּ֥בֶרvehadeverconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularThe sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.here: and the pestilence
- Ezekiel 7:15וָדֶ֖בֶרvadeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularThe sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.here: and pestilence
- Ezekiel 12:16וּמִדָּ֑בֶרumidaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singularBut I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”here: and from [the] pestilence
- Ezekiel 14:19דֶּ֥בֶרdevernoun · masculine singularOr if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,here: pestilence
- Ezekiel 14:21וָדֶ֔בֶרvadeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?here: and pestilence
- Ezekiel 28:23דֶּ֤בֶרdevernoun · masculine singularI will send a plague against her and shed blood in her streets; the slain will fall within her, while the sword is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.here: a pestilence
- Ezekiel 33:27בַּדֶּ֥בֶרbadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularTell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.here: by the pestilence
- Ezekiel 38:22בְּדֶ֣בֶרbedeverpreposition + noun · masculine singularI will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.here: by pestilence