Hebrew noun · H1677
דֹּב
dobdobe
bear
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dôb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1677is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1677
the bear (as slow)
The King James renders it: bear.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
dob is rendered "bear". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 17:34David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
1 Samuel 17:34הַדּ֔וֹב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the bear4
- a bear2
- like a bear2
- and a bear1
- and bear1
- bears1
- like the bears1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דֹּבֶר | dober | pasture | Uses3 |
| דֹּב | dob | bear | Uses1 |
| דֹּבֶא | dobe | strength | Uses1 |
| דֹּבְרָה | doberah | raft | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דֹּ֣ב2
- דֻּבִּים֙1
- הַדֹּ֔ב1
- הַדֹּ֑ב1
- הַדּ֔וֹב1
- הַדּ֖וֹב1
- וְדֹ֣ב1
- וָדֹב֙1
- כְּדֹ֥ב1
- כְּדֹ֣ב1
- כַדֻּבִּים֙1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular4HTd/Ncbsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular2HC/Ncbsa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular2HNcbsa
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular2HR/Ncbsa
- noun · masculine or feminine plural1HNcbpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine plural1HRd/Ncbpa
1 Samuel
three uses
David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
- הַדּ֔וֹבhadovthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the bear
Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
- הַדּ֖וֹבhadovthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the bear
David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”
- הַדֹּ֔בhadothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the bear
2 Samuel
one use
He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
- כְּדֹ֥בkedopreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: like a bear
2 Kings
one use
Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
- דֻּבִּים֙dubimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: bears
Proverbs
two uses
It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.
- דֹּ֣בdonoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a bear
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.
- וְדֹ֣בvedoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and a bear
Isaiah
two uses
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
- וָדֹב֙vadoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and bear
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
- כַדֻּבִּים֙khadubimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: like the bears
Lamentations
one use
He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
- דֹּ֣בdonoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a bear
Hosea
one use
Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.
- כְּדֹ֣בkedopreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: like a bear
Amos
one use
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
- הַדֹּ֑בhadothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the bear
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.