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# דְּרוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1866

**swallow** — 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

swallow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1866/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּרוֹר²: n.f. swallow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1866/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ψ 84:4 swallow ψ 84:4 (‖ צִפּוֹר), Che (q.v.) makes simile of quiet, peace, security, and supplies ellipsis; in simile, Pr 26:2 כַּצִּפּוֹר לָנוּד כַּדְּרוֹר לָעוּף (of groundless curse, which does not alight, i.e. is not fulfilled).

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.2/#tree)

כַּצִּפּ֣וֹר לָ֭נוּד כַּדְּר֣וֹר לָע֑וּף כֵּ֥ן קִֽלְלַ֥ת חִ֝נָּ֗ם ל֣וֹ תָבֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* like (the) bird for fluttering like (the) swallow for flying so a.curse without.cause to him it.will.come

*JPS 1917:* As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home.

[Psalms 84:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.4/#tree)

גַּם־צִפּ֨וֹר ׀ מָ֪צְאָה בַ֡יִת וּדְר֤וֹר ׀ קֵ֥ן לָהּ֮ אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֪תָה אֶפְרֹ֫חֶ֥יהָ אֶֽת־מִ֭זְבְּחוֹתֶיךָ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת מַ֝לְכִּ֗י וֵאלֹהָֽי׃

*Word for word:* also a.bird it.has.found a.home and a.swallow a.nest for itself which it.has.put ones its.young with altars your O.Yahweh of.hosts king my and God my

*JPS 1917:* Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young; Thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God — .

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1866/): 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).