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דֶּבֶר

«דֶּבֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: pestilence — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 49 times · Key: 1698 · BDB: דֶּ֫בֶר

Glosses

pestilence (40); a.pestilence (6); a.plague (2)

Meaning (OSHB)

pestilence tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. pestilence tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. pestilence (cf. Arabic دَبْرٌ, إِدْبَارٌ, departure, death)—Ex 9:3 +; דָּ֑בֶר Hb 3:5; sf. דְּבָרֶיךָ Ho 13:14;— plague, pestilence, in general Ex 5:3; 9:15 Nu 14:12 (J) Lv 26:25 (H) Dt 28:21, 2 S 24:13, 15 (+ v 15 a 𝔊 We Dr) = 1 Ch 21:12, 14, 1 K 8:37 = 2 Ch 6:28, 2 Ch 7:13; 20:9 ψ 91:3, 6 Je 14:12 + 16 times Je, Ez 5:12 + 11 times Ez, Ho 13:14 Am 4:10 Hb 3:5. Read וּבַדָּ֑בֶר, or the like, 1 S 4:8, for MT בַּמִּדְבָּר, We Klo Dr. cattle-plague, murrain Ex 9:3 (J) = ψ 78:50.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «דֶּבֶר» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Psalms 91:3

כִּ֤י ה֣וּא יַ֭צִּֽילְךָ מִפַּ֥ח יָק֗וּשׁ מִדֶּ֥בֶר הַוּֽוֹת׃

Word for word: (dm) he he will.deliver.you from.[the] snare of.a.fowler from a.plague of.destruction(s)

JPS 1917: That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Psalms 91:6

מִ֭דֶּבֶר בָּאֹ֣פֶל יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב יָשׁ֥וּד צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

Word for word: from a.plague [which].in the gloom it.will.walk from destruction [which].it.will.devastate noon(s)

JPS 1917: Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

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