HebrewH1698Noun (Masculine)

דֶּ֫בֶר

de.ver

48Occurrences
H1698Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a pestilence

from H1696 (דָבַר) (in the sense of destroying);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. pestilence, plague 2) murrain, cattle disease, cattle-plague

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

דֶּ֫בֶר appears 48 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
17
Ezk
11
2 Chronicles
3
Exodus
3
Psalms
3
1 Chronicles
2
2 Samuel
2
1 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 21:12BSB

between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

Deuteronomy 28:21BSB

The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

Ezk 38:22BSB

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Jeremiah 21:6BSB

I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’

Jeremiah 32:24BSB

See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!

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