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# דָּרְבָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1861

**goad** — used 2 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

goad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1861/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּרְבָן: goad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1861/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] goad (NH id.), לְהַצִּיב הַדָּרְבָ֑ן 1 S 13:21 (on form cf. Ol§ 215 b. 3 al. Dr).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: goad\[s\] (1); goads (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 12:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.11/#tree)

דִּבְרֵ֤י חֲכָמִים֙ כַּדָּ֣רְבֹנ֔וֹת וּֽכְמַשְׂמְר֥וֹת נְטוּעִ֖ים בַּעֲלֵ֣י אֲסֻפּ֑וֹת נִתְּנ֖וּ מֵרֹעֶ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].words of.wise.\[people\] \[are\].like (the) goads and.\[are\] like nails firmly.fixed masters of.collections they.are.given from a.shepherd one

*JPS 1917:* The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.

[1 Samuel 13:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.21/#tree)

וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה הַפְּצִ֣ירָה פִ֗ים לַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙ וְלָ֣אֵתִ֔ים וְלִשְׁלֹ֥שׁ קִלְּשׁ֖וֹן וּלְהַקַּרְדֻּמִּ֑ים וּלְהַצִּ֖יב הַדָּרְבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the charge two.thirds.of.a.shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks and for three fork and for the axes and to make.straight the goad\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1861.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1861/): 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).