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# דְּבוֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1683

**Deborah** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Deborah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1683/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּבוֹרָה²: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1683/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (bee)— the nurse of Rebekah Gn 35:8. the prophetess Ju 4:4, 5, 9, 10, 14; 5:1, 7, 12, 15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Deborah (8); O Deborah (1); of Deborah (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.1/#tree)

וַתָּ֣שַׁר דְּבוֹרָ֔ה וּבָרָ֖ק בֶּן־אֲבִינֹ֑עַם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and she.sang Deborah and Barak the.son of.Abinoam on the day (the) that (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying:

[Judges 5:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.7/#tree)

חָדְל֧וּ פְרָז֛וֹן בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל חָדֵ֑לּוּ עַ֤ד שַׁקַּ֙מְתִּי֙ דְּבוֹרָ֔ה שַׁקַּ֥מְתִּי אֵ֖ם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* they.ceased rural.people in Israel they.ceased until that I.arose Deborah that I.arose a.mother in Israel

*JPS 1917:* The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, until that thou didst arise, Deborah, that thou didst arise a mother in Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1683.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1683/): 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).