דְּרוֹר

deror · liberty, flowing

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1865 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

deror (דְּרוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “liberty, flowing”.

Liberty proclaimed for those who had been sold or were in debt. Said of myrrh, free-flowing (Exodus 30:23).

How to say it

de·ror

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Release for slaves and debtors.
  2. Flowing freely: running myrrh.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • liberty ×7
  • liquid ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Exodus 30:23

    “And you, take for yourself the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,

  • Leviticus 25:10

    And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, and you shall return, each to his possession, and each to his clan you shall return.

  • Isaiah 61:1

    The spirit of Adonai YHWH is upon me, because YHWH has anointed me to bring good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and to the prisoners opening of the prison,

  • Jeremiah 34:8

    The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,

  • Jeremiah 34:15

    And you had turned back today, and had done what is right in my eyes, proclaiming liberty, each one to his neighbor, and you had made a covenant before me in the house over which my name is called.

  • Jeremiah 34:17

    Therefore thus says YHWH: You have not listened to me to proclaim liberty, each one to his brother and each one to his neighbor; look, I am proclaiming to you liberty, declares YHWH, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Ezekiel 46:17

    But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the chief; only his inheritance belongs to his sons; it shall be theirs.

And 1 more times.