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# זְבוּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2070

**fly** — 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

fly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2070/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְבוּב: n.m. fly II.4 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2070/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 10:1 fly (as moving to and fro in the air? cf. Fl NHWB i. 438 b; NH id., Assyrian zumbu, DlS 63 f.; Arabic دُبَابٌ, Aramaic דִּיבָבָא, ܕܶܒܳܐ, ܕܶܒܳܒܳܐ );—lit. only זְבוּבֵי מָוֶת Ec 10:1 i.e. dead flies; so AV RV Hi Now al.; \> 𝔊 De al. death-bringing, deadly flies; זְבוּב metaph. of Egyptian army Is 7:18 (‖ דְּבוֹרָה, bee, of Assyrian); on בַּעַל זְבוּב v. בַּעַל II.4, p. 127 supr.

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 (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: flies (1); fly (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 10:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.1/#tree)

זְב֣וּבֵי מָ֔וֶת יַבְאִ֥ישׁ יַבִּ֖יעַ שֶׁ֣מֶן רוֹקֵ֑חַ יָקָ֛ר מֵחָכְמָ֥ה מִכָּב֖וֹד סִכְל֥וּת מְעָֽט׃

*Word for word:* flies of.death it.causes.to.stink it.ferments \[the\].oil of.a.perfumer \[is\].weighty more than.wisdom more than.honor folly a.little

*JPS 1917:* Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour.

[Isaiah 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.18/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא יִשְׁרֹ֤ק יְהוָה֙ לַזְּב֔וּב אֲשֶׁ֥ר בִּקְצֵ֖ה יְאֹרֵ֣י מִצְרָ֑יִם וְלַ֨דְּבוֹרָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּאֶ֥רֶץ אַשּֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be in the day (the) that he.will.whistle Yahweh for the fly which \[is\].at the.end of.the.canals of.Egypt and for the bee which \[is\].in the.land of.Assyria

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2070.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2070/): 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).