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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)
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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 - Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us; let us go, we pray, a three days' journey into the wilderness, 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 fall with a very severe plague upon your cattle which are in the field, the horses, the asses, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:15 - For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and 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 upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather 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 pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, "Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return 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 pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence upon the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I shall return 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 pestilence upon Israel; and there fell seventy thousand men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust 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 evil comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, for thy name is in this house, and cry to thee in our affliction, and thou wilt 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 them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:3 - For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:6 - nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:12 - Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - And I will smite 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 - Afterward, says the LORD, I will give Zedeki'ah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them, or spare them, or have compassion.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chalde'ans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their fathers."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, says the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation which 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 preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:17 - 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, 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 - Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chalde'ans who are fighting against it. What thou didst speak has come to pass, and behold, thou seest 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 is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by 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 by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, says the LORD. I will make you a horror to 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 stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chalde'ans shall live; he shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; they shall have no remnant or survivor from the evil which I will bring upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:22 - Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:12 - A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in the midst of you; a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:17 - I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children; pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon 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: "Clap your hands, and stamp your foot, and say, Alas! because of 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 that is far off shall die of pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - The sword is without, pestilence and famine are within; he that is in the field dies by the sword; and him that is in the city famine and pestilence devour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may confess all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may 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 wrath upon it with blood, to 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 when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23 - for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured; and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:22 - With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples that are with him, torrential rains and hailstones, fire and brimstone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:14 - Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion is hid from my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - "I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword; I carried away your horses; and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return 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 plague followed close behind.
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