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# דֶּגֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1714

**standard** — used 14 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

standard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1714/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֶּ֫גֶל: n.m. standard, banner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1714/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Nu 10:14 standard, banner (Assyrian diglu DlHA 40 Pr 58; cf. also Di Nu 2:2); cstr. דֶּגֶל Nu 2:3 + 7 times; sf. דִּגְלוֹ Nu 1:52 + 2 times; pl. sf. דִּגְלֵיהֶם Nu 2:17, 31, 34;—standard, partic. of separate tribes of Isr. ד׳ מחנה יהודה etc. Nu 2:3, 10, 18, 25; 10:14, 18, 22, 25; cf. also 1:52; 2:2 (‖ אֹתֹת) v 17, 31, 34 (all P); fig. Ct 2:4 ודגלו עלי אהבה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: the standard (7); standard (3); standards (3).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.4/#tree)

הֱבִיאַ֙נִי֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית הַיָּ֔יִן וְדִגְל֥וֹ עָלַ֖י אַהֲבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* he has.brought.me into the.house of.(the) wine and standard his over me \[is\].love

*JPS 1917:* He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.

[Numbers 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.18/#tree)

וְנָסַ֗ע דֶּ֛גֶל מַחֲנֵ֥ה רְאוּבֵ֖ן לְצִבְאֹתָ֑ם וְעַל־צְבָא֔וֹ אֱלִיצ֖וּר בֶּן־שְׁדֵיאֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* and it.set.out the.standard of.the.camp of.Reuben to their.military groups and.\[was\] over group its.military Elizur the.son of.Shedeur

*JPS 1917:* And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1714.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1714/): 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).