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# דֶּבֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1698

**pestilence** — used 49 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

pestilence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1698/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֶּ֫בֶר: n.m. pestilence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1698/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pestilence (cf. Arabic دَبْرٌ, إِدْبَارٌ, departure, death)—Ex 9:3 +; דָּ֑בֶר Hb 3:5; sf. דְּבָרֶיךָ Ho 13:14;— plague, pestilence, in general Ex 5:3; 9:15 Nu 14:12 (J) Lv 26:25 (H) Dt 28:21, 2 S 24:13, 15 (+ v 15 a 𝔊 We Dr) = 1 Ch 21:12, 14, 1 K 8:37 = 2 Ch 6:28, 2 Ch 7:13; 20:9 ψ 91:3, 6 Je 14:12 + 16 times Je, Ez 5:12 + 11 times Ez, Ho 13:14 Am 4:10 Hb 3:5. Read וּבַדָּ֑בֶר, or the like, 1 S 4:8, for MT בַּמִּדְבָּר, We Klo Dr. cattle-plague, murrain Ex 9:3 (J) = ψ 78:50.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pestilence (40); a pestilence (6); a plague (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 91:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.3/#tree)

כִּ֤י ה֣וּא יַ֭צִּֽילְךָ מִפַּ֥ח יָק֗וּשׁ מִדֶּ֥בֶר הַוּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he he will.deliver.you from.\[the\] snare of.a.fowler from a.plague of.destruction(s)

*JPS 1917:* That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

[Psalms 91:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.6/#tree)

מִ֭דֶּבֶר בָּאֹ֣פֶל יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב יָשׁ֥וּד צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* from a.plague \[which\].in the gloom it.will.walk from destruction \[which\].it.will.devastate noon(s)

*JPS 1917:* Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1698.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1698/): 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).