dov · bear

What it means

dov (דֹּב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bear”.

How to say it

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. A strong wild animal of the hills; a she-bear with cubs was very dangerous.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bear ×10
• like bears ×1
• she-bears ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• 1 Samuel 17:34

  David said to Saul, “Your servant used to be a shepherd for his father with the flock; and when the lion came, or the bear, and carried off a lamb from the drove,

• 1 Samuel 17:36

  Both the lion and the bear your servant has struck; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has reproached the battle lines of the living Elohim.”

• 1 Samuel 17:37

  David said, “YHWH, who delivered me from the hand of the lion and from the hand of the bear, he will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and may YHWH be with you.”

• 2 Samuel 17:8

  And Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are bitter of soul, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of war, and he will not spend the night with the people.

• 2 Kings 2:24

  He turned behind him and saw them and cursed them in the name of YHWH. And two she-bears came out of the forest and tore apart forty two children of them.

• Proverbs 17:12

  Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, and not a senseless man in his folly.

• Proverbs 28:15

  A roaring lion and a hungry bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

• Isaiah 11:7

  And the cow and the bear will graze; their young will lie down together; and the lion, like the ox, will eat straw.

• Isaiah 59:11

  We growl like bears, all of us, and like doves we keep moaning; we wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

• Lamentations 3:10

  A bear lying in wait he is to me, a lion in hiding places.

• Hosea 13:8

  I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open the covering of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lioness; the animal of the field will rip them apart.

• Amos 5:19

  As when a man flees from the lion, and the bear meets him; or goes into the house and leans his hand against the wall, and the snake bites him.