דְּבוֹרָה dᵉbôwrâh
Meaning
the bee (from its systematic instincts)
In the King James Version: bee.
Derivation: or (shortened) דְּבֹרָה; from H1696 (דָבַר) (in the sense of orderly motion);
Where it is used
- Deuteronomy 1:44 Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
- Judges 14:8 When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
- Psalms 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Isaiah 7:18 On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.