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# דְּבִר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1688

**Debir** — used 12 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

Debir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1688/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּבִיר²: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1688/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. king of Eglon Jos 10:3. n.pr.loc. דְּבִ֫רָה c. ָהloc., N. border Judah Jos 15:7 (westward Hup ψ 28:2). לִדְבִר town of the Gadites Jos 13:26, perhaps Lôdebâr 2 S 9:4 vid. לֹא דְבָר Di MV. דְּבִיר Ju 1:11(×2) 1 Ch 6:43, דְּבִרָה Jos 10:38, 39, elsewhere דְּבִר Jos 15:15 +, a royal city of Canaanites anciently called קִרְיַת סֵפֶר Jos 15:15 Ju 1:11, קִרְיַת סַנָּה Jos 15:49; on the mountains of Judah, in region of Hebron Jos 11:21; 15:49, assigned to the Aaronite priests Jos 21:15 as a city of refuge 1 Ch 6:43; mod. Dhoherîye, 5 hours SW. from Hebron, according to Kn, so Surveyiii. 402; other conject. in Di Jos 10:39 RiHWB 265.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Debir (5); Debir (4); to (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.13/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ דְּבִר֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ גֶּ֖דֶר אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Debir one the.king of.Geder one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

[Joshua 15:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.49/#tree)

וְדַנָּ֥ה וְקִרְיַת־סַנָּ֖הקִרְיַת־סַנָּ֖ה הִ֥יא דְבִֽר׃

*Word for word:* and Dannah and Kiriath Sannah that \[is\].Debir

*JPS 1917:* and Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah — the same is Debir;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1688.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1688/): 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).