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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1698

דֶּבֶר

deberdeh'-ber

pestilence

49 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1698is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 36
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1698

a pestilence

The King James renders it: murrain, pestilence, plague.

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

deber is rendered "pestilence". It stands 49 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 5:3“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.”
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-six different ways.

The first use

“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.”

Exodus 5:3בַּדֶּ֖בֶר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seventeen of the word's forty-nine uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 25 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and by the pestilence9
  • pestilence8
  • and pestilence5
  • the pestilence5
  • a pestilence4
  • by the pestilence3
  • with the pestilence3
  • and the pestilence2
  • and with the pestilence2
  • and from pestilence1
  • and of pestilence1
  • by a pestilence1

and 5 more, 49 uses in all

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.

דֶּבֶקdebeqjointUses3

All 49, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

36 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

  • וּבַדָּ֑בֶר4
  • דֶּ֖בֶר3
  • דֶּ֙בֶר֙3
  • הַדָּ֑בֶר3
  • בַּדֶּ֣בֶר2
  • דֶּ֣בֶר2
  • וּבַדֶּ֖בֶר2
  • וּבַדָּֽבֶר׃2
  • בְּדֶ֥בֶר1
  • בְּדֶ֣בֶר1
  • בַדֶּ֖בֶר1
  • בַּדֶּ֖בֶר1

and 24 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular12HNcmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular11HC/Rd/Ncmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular7HRd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular5HC/Ncmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5HTd/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular3HR/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2HC/R/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Td/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc

Exodus

three uses
  • “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.”

    Exodus 5:3

    • בַּדֶּ֖בֶרbadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the pestilence
  • then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

    Exodus 9:3

    • דֶּ֖בֶרdevernoun · masculine singulartagged: a pestilence
  • For 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.

    Exodus 9:15

    • בַּדָּ֑בֶרbadaverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the pestilence

Leviticus

one use
  • And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

    Leviticus 26:25

    • דֶ֙בֶר֙devernoun · masculine singulartagged: a pestilence

Numbers

one use
  • I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

    Numbers 14:12

    • בַדֶּ֖בֶרvadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the pestilence

Deuteronomy

one use
  • The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

    Deuteronomy 28:21

    • הַדָּ֑בֶרhadaverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pestilence

2 Samuel

two uses
  • So 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.”

    2 Samuel 24:13

    • דֶּ֙בֶר֙devernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence
  • So 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.

    2 Samuel 24:15

    • דֶּ֙בֶר֙devernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence

1 Kings

one use
  • When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

    1 Kings 8:37

    • דֶּ֣בֶרdevernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • between 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.”

    1 Chronicles 21:12

    • וְדֶ֙בֶר֙vedeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pestilence
  • So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

    1 Chronicles 21:14

    • דֶּ֖בֶרdevernoun · masculine singulartagged: a pestilence

2 Chronicles

three uses
  • When 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,

    2 Chronicles 6:28

    • דֶּ֣בֶרdevernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence
  • If 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,

    2 Chronicles 7:13

    • דֶּ֖בֶרdevernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence
  • ‘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.’

    2 Chronicles 20:9

    • וְדֶ֣בֶרvedeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pestilence

Psalms

three uses
  • He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

    Psalms 78:50

    • לַדֶּ֥בֶרladeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the pestilence
  • Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.

    Psalms 91:3

    • מִדֶּ֥בֶרmideverpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from a plague of
  • nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

    Psalms 91:6

    • מִ֭דֶּבֶרmideverpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from a plague

Jeremiah

seventeen uses
  • Although 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.”

    Jeremiah 14:12

    • וּבַדֶּ֔בֶרuvadeverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence
  • I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’

    Jeremiah 21:6

    • בְּדֶ֥בֶרbedeverpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by a pestilence
  • ‘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.’

    Jeremiah 21:7

    • הַדֶּ֣בֶר׀hadeverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pestilence
  • Whoever 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.

    Jeremiah 21:9

    • וּבַדָּ֑בֶרuvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence
  • And 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.’”

    Jeremiah 24:10

    • הַדָּ֑בֶרhadaverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pestilence
  • As 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.

    Jeremiah 27:8

    • וּבַדֶּ֜בֶרuvadeverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with the pestilence
  • Why 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?

    Jeremiah 27:13

    • וּבַדָּ֑בֶר֙uvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence
  • The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.

    Jeremiah 28:8

    • וּלְדָֽבֶר׃uledaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and of pestilence
  • this 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.

    Jeremiah 29:17

    • הַדָּ֑בֶרhadaverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pestilence
  • I 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.

    Jeremiah 29:18

    • וּבַדָּ֑בֶרuvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with the pestilence
  • See 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!

    Jeremiah 32:24

    • וְהַדָּ֑בֶרvehadaverconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the pestilence
  • Now 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:

    Jeremiah 32:36

    • וּבַדָּֽבֶר׃uvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence
  • Therefore 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.

    Jeremiah 34:17

    • הַדֶּ֣בֶרhadeverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pestilence
  • “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.

    Jeremiah 38:2

    • וּבַדָּ֑בֶרuvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence
  • So 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.’

    Jeremiah 42:17

    • וּבַדָּ֑בֶרuvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence
  • Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”

    Jeremiah 42:22

    • וּבַדֶּ֖בֶרuvadeverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence
  • I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,

    Jeremiah 44:13

    • וּבַדָּֽבֶר׃uvadaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence

Ezekiel

twelve uses
  • A 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.

    Ezekiel 5:12

    • בַּדֶּ֣בֶרbadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the pestilence
  • I 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.”

    Ezekiel 5:17

    • וְדֶ֥בֶרvedeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pestilence
  • This 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.

    Ezekiel 6:11

    • וּבַדֶּ֖בֶרuvadeverconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by the pestilence
  • He 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.

    Ezekiel 6:12

    • בַּדֶּ֣בֶרbadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the pestilence
  • The 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.

    Ezekiel 7:15

    • וְהַדֶּ֥בֶרvehadeverconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the pestilence
    • וָדֶ֖בֶרvadeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pestilence
  • But 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.”

    Ezekiel 12:16

    • וּמִדָּ֑בֶרumidaverconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from pestilence
  • Or 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,

    Ezekiel 14:19

    • דֶּ֥בֶרdevernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence
  • For 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?

    Ezekiel 14:21

    • וָדֶ֔בֶרvadeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pestilence
  • I 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.

    Ezekiel 28:23

    • דֶּ֤בֶרdevernoun · masculine singulartagged: a pestilence
  • Tell 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.

    Ezekiel 33:27

    • בַּדֶּ֥בֶרbadeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the pestilence
  • I 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.

    Ezekiel 38:22

    • בְּדֶ֣בֶרbedeverpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by pestilence

Hosea

one use
  • I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

    Hosea 13:14

    • דְבָרֶיךָ֜devareikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: thorns your

Amos

one use
  • “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

    Amos 4:10

    • דֶּ֙בֶר֙devernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence

Habakkuk

one use
  • Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

    Habakkuk 3:5

    • דָּ֑בֶרdavernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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