דְּבַשׁ devash

Hebrew word for “honey” · Strong’s H1706 · used 54 times in 54 verses

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Meaning

honey

How it is translated

Glosses given for devash in context, with how often each is used:

• honey 50
• more than honey 3
• like honey 1

Where it is used

Also in 7 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Samuel 14 (5), Judges 14 (3), Exodus 3 (2), Numbers 16 (2), Deuteronomy 26 (2), Proverbs 25 (2), Isaiah 7 (2), Ezekiel 16 (2), Ezekiel 20 (2), Genesis 43 (1)

Forms

• ודבשׁ 31
• דבשׁ 15
• מדבשׁ 3
• הדבשׁ 2
• בדבשׁ 1
• דבשׁי 1
• כדבשׁ 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with devash more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חָלָב chalav “milk” 23
• זוּב zuv “to flow” 20
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 14
• אָב av “father” 13
• שָׁבַע shava “to swear” 8
• מָתוֹק matoq “sweet” 5
• חֶמְאָה chemah “curd” 4
• שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 6
• הֶם hem “them” 9
• נוּ nu “us” 6
• חִטָּה chittah “wheat” 4
• זֹאת zot “this” 7

Key verses

The verses using devash that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 43:11 — And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a…
• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing…
• Exodus 3:17 — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,…
• Exodus 13:5 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which…
• Exodus 33:3 — Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
• Deuteronomy 31:20 — For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled…
• Deuteronomy 32:13 — He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of…
• Psalms 19:10 — More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
• Song of Solomon 5:1 — I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my…
• Jeremiah 32:22 — And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
• Ezekiel 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey,…
• Ezekiel 20:15 — Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.