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Lexicon :: Strong's H1698 - deḇer

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דֶּבֶר
Transliteration
deḇer
Pronunciation
deh'-ber
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From דָּבַר (H1696) (in the sense of destroying)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 399b

Strong’s Definitions

דֶּבֶר deber, deh'-ber; from H1696 (in the sense of destroying); a pestilence:—murrain, pestilence, plague.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x

The KJV translates Strong's H1698 in the following manner: pestilence (47x), plagues (1x), murrain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x
The KJV translates Strong's H1698 in the following manner: pestilence (47x), plagues (1x), murrain (1x).

  1. pestilence, plague

  2. murrain, cattle disease, cattle-plague

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דֶּבֶר deber, deh'-ber; from H1696 (in the sense of destroying); a pestilence:—murrain, pestilence, plague.
STRONGS H1698: Abbreviations
דֶּ֫בֶר 49 noun masculine pestilence (compare Arabic دَبْرٌ, إِدْبَارٌ, departure, death) — Exodus 9:3 +; דָּ֑בֶר Habakkuk 3:5; suffix דְּבָרֶיךָ Hosea 13:14; —
1. plague, pestilence, in general Exodus 5:3; Exodus 9:15; Numbers 14:12 (J) Leviticus 26:25 (H) Deuteronomy 28:21; 2 Samuel 24:13, 15 (+ 2 Samuel 24:15a Greek Version of the LXX We Dr) = 1 Chronicles 21:12, 14; 1 Kings 8:37 2 Chronicles 6:28; 7:13; 20:9; Psalm 91:3; Psalm 91:6; Jeremiah 14:12 + 16 times Jeremiah; Ezekiel 5:12 + 11 times Ezekiel; Hosea 13:14; Amos 4:10; Habakkuk 3:5. Read וּבַדָּ֑בֶר, or the like, 1 Samuel 4:8, for MT בַּמִּדְבָּר, We Klo Dr.
†2. cattle-plague, murrain Exodus 9:3 (J) = Psalm 78:50.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

5:3; 9:3; 9:3; 9:15

Leviticus

26:25

Numbers

14:12

Deuteronomy

28:21

1 Samuel

4:8

2 Samuel

24:13; 24:15; 24:15

1 Kings

8:37

1 Chronicles

21:12; 21:14

2 Chronicles

6:28; 7:13; 20:9

Psalms

78:50; 91:3; 91:6

Jeremiah

14:12

Ezekiel

5:12

Hosea

13:14; 13:14

Amos

4:10

Habakkuk

3:5; 3:5

H1698

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1698 matches the Hebrew דֶּבֶר (deḇer),
which occurs 49 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - So they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days’ journey into the desert and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3 - “behold, the hand of the LORD will be on your cattle in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the oxen, and on the sheep—a very severe pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:15 - “Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:12 - “I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:21 - “The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad came to David and told him; and he said to him, “Shall seven[fn] years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:15 - So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - ‘either three[fn] years of famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of the LORD—the plague in the land, with the angel[fn] of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now consider what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:14 - So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - ‘If disaster comes upon us—sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:50

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:50 - He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the plague,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:3 - Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler[fn]
And from the perilous pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:6 - Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:12 - “When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - “I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - “And afterward,” says the LORD, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy.” ’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - “He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - ‘And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - ‘And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,’ says the LORD, ‘with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - “Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - “The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms—of war and disaster and pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:17 - thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth—to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - ‘Look, the siege mounds! They have come to the city to take it; and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword and famine and pestilence. What You have spoken has happened; there You see it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 - “Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence’:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - “Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,’ says the LORD—‘to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “Thus says the LORD: ‘He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes over to the Chaldeans shall live; his life shall be as a prize to him, and he shall live.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - ‘So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to dwell there. They shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. And none of them shall remain or escape from the disaster that I will bring upon them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:22 - “Now therefore, know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to dwell.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - ‘For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:12 - ‘One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:17 - ‘So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Pound your fists and stamp your feet, and say, ‘Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - ‘He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - The sword is outside,
And the pestilence and famine within.
Whoever is in the field
Will die by the sword;
And whoever is in the city,
Famine and pestilence will devour him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - “But I will spare a few of their men from the sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the Gentiles wherever they go. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut off from it man and beast,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - For thus says the Lord GOD: “How much more it shall be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23 - For I will send pestilence upon her,
And blood in her streets;
The wounded shall be judged in her midst
By the sword against her on every side;
Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Say thus to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “As I live, surely those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and caves shall die of the pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:22 - “And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:14 - “I will ransom them from the power of the grave;[fn]
I will redeem them from death.
O Death, I will be your plagues![fn]
O Grave,[fn] I will be your destruction![fn]
Pity is hidden from My eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - “I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt;
Your young men I killed with a sword,
Along with your captive horses;
I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:5 - Before Him went pestilence,
And fever followed at His feet.
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