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# דּוֹנַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1749

**wax** — used 4 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

wax [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1749/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דּוֹנַג: n.m. wax [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1749/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. wax, דּוֹנַג Mi 1:4 + 2 times; דּוֹנָ֑ג ψ 22:15—always in simile, of melting; at theophany hills melt like wax ψ 97:5; like wax before fire Mi 1:4; wicked perish as wax melteth before fire ψ 68:3; heart melteth like wax ψ 22:15 (simile of fear, despair). On ד׳ in ψ 118:12 cf. Bae Checrit. n.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: wax (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.3/#tree)

כְּהִנְדֹּ֥ף עָשָׁ֗ן תִּ֫נְדֹּ֥ף כְּהִמֵּ֣ס דּ֭וֹנַג מִפְּנֵי־אֵ֑שׁ יֹאבְד֥וּ רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים מִפְּנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* as is.driven.about smoke may.you.drive.\[them\].about as melts wax from before a.fire may.they.perish wicked.\[people\] from before God

*JPS 1917:* As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

[Psalms 97:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.5/#tree)

הָרִ֗ים כַּדּוֹנַ֗ג נָ֭מַסּוּ מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה מִ֝לִּפְנֵ֗י אֲד֣וֹן כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* mountains like (the) wax they.melt from before Yahweh from before the.lord of.all the earth

*JPS 1917:* The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1749.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1749/): 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).