דְּבוֹרָה
devora · bee
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1682 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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devora (דְּבוֹרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bee”.
How to say it
de·vo·ra
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
- An insect that lives in swarms, makes honey and stings to defend itself.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bees ×3
- bee ×1
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 1:44
Then the Amorite who lived in that hill country came out to meet you and chased you as bees do, and crushed you in Seir as far as Hormah.
- Judges 14:8
After some days he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and look, a swarm of bees was in the body of the lion, and honey.
- Psalms 118:12
They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns; in the name of YHWH I surely cut them off.
- Isaiah 7:18
And it will happen on that day that YHWH will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.