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# דָּבַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1680

**move gently** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

move gently [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1680/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּבַב: vb. move gently, glide, glide over [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1680/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. move gently, glide, glide over (NH דָּבַב flow slowly, drop; Arabic دَبَّ walk leisurely, gently, دَابَّةٌ any animal that walks or creeps, cf. דֹּב; Assyrian dabâbu, plot, plan, COT Gloss., cf. דִּבָּה)—only Pt. דּוֹבֵב שִׂפְתֵי יְשֵׁנִים Ct 7:10, of wine gliding over the lips of sleepers; (ד׳ שְׂפָתַי וְשִׁנָּי֑ i.e. my lips and teeth 𝔊 𝔖 Aq Gei Urschrift 405).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[which\] flows gently (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.10/#tree)

וְחִכֵּ֕ךְ כְּיֵ֥ין הַטּ֛וֹב הוֹלֵ֥ךְ לְדוֹדִ֖י לְמֵישָׁרִ֑ים דּוֹבֵ֖ב שִׂפְתֵ֥י יְשֵׁנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and mouth your \[be\].like.(the) wine of.(the) good \[which\].goes for lover my to smoothness(es) \[which\].flows.gently \[the\].lips of.sleepers

*JPS 1917:* And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1680.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1680/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).