Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5317
נֹפֶת
nophethno'-feth
honey
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nôpheth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5317is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5317
a dripping i.e. of honey (from the comb)
The King James renders it: honeycomb.
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
nopheth is rendered "honey". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 19:10They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
Psalms 19:10וְנֹ֣פֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- honey3
- and honey from comb1
- and honey of1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נֹפֶךְ | nophek | emerald | Uses4 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וְנֹ֣פֶת1
- וְנֹ֥פֶת1
- נֹ֣פֶת1
- נֹ֑פֶת1
- נֹ֛פֶת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
Psalms
one use
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
- וְנֹ֣פֶתvenofetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and honey of
Proverbs
three uses
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- נֹ֣פֶתnofetnoun · feminine singulartagged: honey
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
- וְנֹ֥פֶתvenofetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and honey from comb
The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
- נֹ֑פֶתnofetnoun · feminine singulartagged: honey
Song of Solomon
one use
Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.
- נֹ֛פֶתnofetnoun · feminine singulartagged: honey
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.