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 39Old Testament books
- 36spellings
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.
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דֶּבֶק | debeq | joint | Uses3 |
The words it stands beside
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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.”
- וְדֶ֙בֶר֙vedeverconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pestilence
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
- 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,
- 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,
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.’
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.”
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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,
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- דֶּ֙בֶר֙devernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence
Habakkuk
one use
Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
- דָּ֑בֶרdavernoun · masculine singulartagged: pestilence
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.
