דֶּבֶר
deber · deh'-ber
a pestilence
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1696 (דָבַר) (in the sense of destroying);
a pestilence
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: murrain, pestilence, plague.
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
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the house, what is within › the head, the highest
The doorway, the way in of the house, what is within of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דֶּבֶר 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
49 occurrences · 49 OT · 0 NT · 36 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and by the pestilence9 · 20%
- pestilence5 · 11%
- and the pestilence4 · 9%
- the pestilence2 · 4%
- a pestilence2 · 4%
- if there be pestilence2 · 4%
- to the pestilence2 · 4%
- and with the pestilence2 · 4%
- of the pestilence2 · 4%
- upon us with pestilence1 · 2%
- murrain1 · 2%
- with pestilence1 · 2%
- them with the pestilence1 · 2%
- shall make the pestilence1 · 2%
- even the pestilence1 · 2%
- or pestilence1 · 2%
- nor for the pestilence1 · 2%
- from the pestilence1 · 2%
- and of pestilence1 · 2%
- and of the pestilence1 · 2%
- with the pestilence1 · 2%
- thee; and pestilence1 · 2%
- and pestilence1 · 2%
- and from the pestilence1 · 2%
- into her pestilence1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
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.