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Lexicon :: Strong's H1706 - dᵊḇaš

Aa
דְּבַשׁ
Transliteration
dᵊḇaš
Pronunciation
deb-ash'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to be gummy
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 400a

Strong’s Definitions

דְּבַשׁ dᵉbash, deb-ash'; from an unused root meaning to be gummy; honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup:—honey(-comb).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x

The KJV translates Strong's H1706 in the following manner: honey (52x), honeycomb (with H3295) (1x), honeycomb (with H6688) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x
The KJV translates Strong's H1706 in the following manner: honey (52x), honeycomb (with H3295) (1x), honeycomb (with H6688) (1x).

  1. honey

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דְּבַשׁ dᵉbash, deb-ash'; from an unused root meaning to be gummy; honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup:—honey(-comb).
STRONGS H1706: Abbreviations
† דְּבַשׁ 54 noun masculine1 Samuel 14:29 honey (named from colour according to Fl NHWBi. 430; Arabic bdb018503 (bdb018504) date-honey; Late Hebrew דְּבַשׁ, Aramaic דּובשא, bdb018505, bdb018506, honey both of fruits and of bees; compare also Assyrian dišpu COTGloss ZimBP 84 DlPr 70) — absolute ד׳ Genesis 43:11 33 times; דְּבָ֑שׁ Exodus 3:8 18 times; suffix דִּבְשִׁי Songs 5:1; — honey, product of bees, used as food Judges 14:8,9,18 (in lion's carcass); found in (clefts of) rock Deuteronomy 32:13 (מִסֶּלַע ד׳, in song, J E), Psalm 81:17 (מִצּוּר ד׳); in woods, on ground 1 Samuel 14:25 (עלפֿני השׂדה) 1 Samuel 14:26 (הֵלֶךְ ד׳; but read rather הָלַךְ דְּבֹרוֺ its bees had departed, We Dr after Greek Version of the LXX) 1 Samuel 14:29; 1 Samuel 14:43; transported in jar or bottle בַּקְבֻּק ד׳ 1 Kings 14:3; contribution to priests and Levites 2 Chronicles 31:5; || חֶמְאָה 2 Samuel 17:29; Isaiah 7:15,22 (in last two the being limited to such food is apparently token of destitution); kept in store Jeremiah 41:8; a choice gift Genesis 43:11 (J); article of trade Ezekiel 27:17 (in these two perhaps = grape syrup, modern dibs, compare Di Genesis 43:11 see RobBR ii. 81); forbidden as burnt offering Leviticus 2:11 (|| שְׂאֹר); honey comb = יַעְרַת הַדּ׳ 1 Samuel 14:27 (compare יַעְרִי Songs 5:1); also צוּף ד׳ Proverbs 16:24 (compare נֹפֶת צופים Psalm 19:11); most often in phrase describing abundance in land of Canaan אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּד׳ Exodus 3:8,17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:3 (all J E) Leviticus 20:24 (H) Numbers 13:27; Numbers 14:8; Numbers 16:18,14 (all J E) Deuteronomy 6:3; Deuteronomy 11:9; Deuteronomy 26:9,15; Deuteronomy 27:3; Deuteronomy 31:20 (all D) Joshua 5:6 (D) Jeremiah 11:5; Jeremiah 32:22; Ezekiel 20:6,15; compare Deuteronomy 8:8; 2 Kings 18:32 (of land of captivity, words of the Rabshak); see also Ezekiel 16:13,19; Job 20:17 וְחֶמְאָה נַחֲלֵי ד׳; honey, used to illustrate moral teachings Proverbs 24:13 (|| נֹפֶת), Proverbs 25:16,27 (danger of surfeit); simile of sweetness of taste Ezekiel 3:3 (the roll), compare כְּצַפִּיחִת בִּד׳ Exodus 16:31 (P; description of manna); of sweetness of the law Psalm 19:11 (|| נֹפֶת צוּפִים) compare Psalm 119:103; (of pleasant words Proverbs 16:24 compare above); sweetness of lips וְחָלָב ד׳ Songs 4:11; figurative of love דִּבְשִׁי Songs 5:1 (|| יַעְרִי, יֵינִי, חֲלָבִי).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

43:11; 43:11; 43:11

Exodus

3:8; 3:8; 3:17; 13:5; 16:31; 33:3

Leviticus

2:11; 20:24

Numbers

13:27; 14:8; 16:14; 16:18

Deuteronomy

6:3; 8:8; 11:9; 26:9; 26:15; 27:3; 31:20; 32:13

Joshua

5:6

Judges

14:8; 14:9; 14:18

1 Samuel

14:25; 14:26; 14:27; 14:29; 14:29; 14:43

2 Samuel

17:29

1 Kings

14:3

2 Kings

18:32

2 Chronicles

31:5

Job

20:17

Psalms

19:11; 19:11; 119:103

Proverbs

16:24; 16:24; 24:13; 25:16; 25:27

Song of Songs

4:11; 5:1; 5:1; 5:1

Isaiah

7:15; 7:22

Jeremiah

11:5; 32:22; 41:8

Ezekiel

3:3; 16:13; 16:19; 20:6; 20:15; 27:17

H1706

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Strong's Number H1706 matches the Hebrew דְּבַשׁ (dᵊḇaš),
which occurs 54 times in 54 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 43:11–Eze 16:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - Then their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so, then do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels to give the man, perfumes and honey and spices and nuts:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31 - And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:3 - Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:11 - No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:24 - But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:27 - And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8 - A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:9 - And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - So, looking down from your holy place in heaven, send your blessing on your people Israel and on the land which you have given us, as you said in your oath to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - And writing on them all the words of this law, after you have gone over; so that you may take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - For when I have taken them into the land named in my oath to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have made themselves full of food and are fat, then they will be turned to other gods and will give them worship, no longer honouring me or keeping my agreement.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - Then after a time he went back to take her; and turning from the road to see the dead body of the lion, he saw a mass of bees in the body of the lion, and honey there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:9 - And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:25 - And there was honey on the face of the field, and all the people came to the honey, the bees having gone from it;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - But not a man put his hand to his mouth for fear of the curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:27 - But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29 - Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 - Then Saul said to Jonathan, Give me an account of what you have done. And Jonathan gave him the story and said, Certainly I took a little honey on the end of my rod; and now death is to be my fate.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29 - And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3 - And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:17 - Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:10 - More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16 - I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:103

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:103 - How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:24 - Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:13 - My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:16 - If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:27 - It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 - Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 - I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:15 - Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:22 - And have given them this land, which you gave your word to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:8 - But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, Do not put us to death, for we have secret stores, in the country, of grain and oil and honey. So he did not put them to death with their countrymen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3 - And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:13 - So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

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