Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1682
דְּבוֹרָה
deborahdeb-o-raw'
bee
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dᵉbôwrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1682is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1682
the bee (from its systematic instincts)
The King James renders it: bee.
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
deborah is rendered "bee". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 1:44Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
Deuteronomy 1:44הַדְּבֹרִ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and for the bee1
- bees1
- like bees1
- the bees1
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.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- דְּבוֹרִ֛ים1
- הַדְּבֹרִ֑ים1
- וְלַ֨דְּבוֹרָ֔ה1
- כִדְבוֹרִ֗ים1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HC/Rd/Ncfsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Deuteronomy
one use
Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
- הַדְּבֹרִ֑יםhadevorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bees
Judges
one use
When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
- דְּבוֹרִ֛יםdevorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bees
Psalms
one use
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- כִדְבוֹרִ֗יםkhidvorimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like bees
Isaiah
one use
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
- וְלַ֨דְּבוֹרָ֔הveladevorahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and for the bee
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.