זְבוּב
zevuv · fly
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2070 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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zevuv (זְבוּב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fly”.
A fly.
How to say it
ze·vuv
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
- A small winged insect that settles on what is rotten.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Flies ×1
- fly ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 10:1
Flies of death make stink, make ferment the oil of the perfumer; weightier than wisdom, than honor, is a little witlessness.
- 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.