דֹּב
dôb · dobe
the bear (as slow)
Lexicon
Derivation: or (fully) דּוֹב; from H1680 (דָּבַב);
the bear (as slow)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bear.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the house, what is within
The doorway, the way in of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דֹּב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
12 occurrences · 12 OT · 0 NT · 11 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and a bear2 · 17%
- and the bear2 · 17%
- of the bear1 · 8%
- as a bear1 · 8%
- she bears1 · 8%
- let a bear1 · 8%
- bear1 · 8%
- all like bears1 · 8%
- he was unto me as a bear1 · 8%
- them as a bear1 · 8%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.