דְּבוֹרִ֛ים — Judges 14:8 Hebrew Word Study

דְּבוֹרִ֛ים

𐤃𐤁𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤌

devorim

of bees

or (shortened) דְּבֹרָה; from דָבַר (in the sense of orderly motion); the bee (from its systematic instincts); bee.

Judges 14:8 · Word #11

Lexicon `H1682`

Lemma	דְּבוֹרָה
Lemma (Paleo)	𐤃𐤁𐤅𐤓𐤄
Transliteration	dᵉbôwrâh
Strong's	H1682
In-context	of bees

Morphology `HNcfpa` All morphology codes

Part of Speech	`N` — Noun — A person, place, thing, or idea
Subtype	`c` — Common — Common noun
Gender	`f` — Feminine — Feminine
Number	`p` — Plural — Plural
State	`a` — Absolute — The noun stands independently

SIBI-P1 `H1682-01`

order-moving bees

Root	דבר (d-b-r)
Core Meanings	speech, utterance, ordering, arrangement, orderly movement
Semantic Range	Literal bees; by extension, imagery of swarming, stinging forces, organized threat, or industrious activity.
Conceptual Significance	Bees in the Hebrew Bible often symbolize numerous, coordinated attackers (e.g., invading enemies) or intense pursuit. The root association with ordered activity subtly reflects the cultural observation of bees as structured and purposeful in their movement.
Morphological Notes	Common feminine noun in the plural absolute form; no article or pronominal suffix. Though grammatically feminine, the plural form functions generically for the class of bees.
Rendering Rationale	The noun דְּבוֹרָה (bee) is traditionally linked to the root דבר in the sense of orderly movement or arrangement, reflecting the bee’s structured, systematic activity. The form דְּבוֹרִים is feminine plural absolute (HNcfpa), so the rendering preserves the plural sense (“bees”) while foregrounding the root idea of ordered motion.

AI-generated (openai/gpt-5.2-chat-latest)

Words from Root דבר (speech, utterance, ordering, arrangement, orderly movement)

SILEX Code	Transliteration	SIBI-P1
`H1696-01`	adaber	I will declare
`H1696-02`	adaberah	Let me speak forth
`H1697-01`	badavar	in the word
`H1698-01`	badaver	with the destroying pestilence
`H1697-02`	badevarim	in the spoken-matters
`H1698-02`	badever	by the destroying plague
`H1687-01`	badevir	in the oracle-shrine
`H4057-01`	bamidebar	in the driving-wilderness
`H1696-03`	bedaber	in speaking forth
`H1696-04`	bedaberam	in their declaring
`H1696-05`	bedaberekhem	in your declaring
`H1696-06`	bedaberi	in my declaring
`H1696-07`	bedabero	in his speaking
`H1697-03`	bedavar	in a spoken matter
`H1696-08`	bedaverekha	in your speaking
`H1698-03`	bedever	in pestilence
`H1697-04`	bediverey	in the words of
`H1697-05`	bedivereykhem	with your words
`H4057-02`	bemidebar	in the driven pasture-land of
`H1697-06`	bidevar	in the spoken-word-of
`H1697-07`	bidevarayv	in his spoken-words
`H1697-08`	bidevarekha	in your spoken word
`H1697-09`	bidevareykha	in your words
`H1697-10`	bidevarim	in spoken matters
`H1697-11`	bidevaro	by his spoken-word
`H1696-09`	daber	Speak forth!
`H1696-10`	daberekha	you have declared
`H1696-11`	daberekhem	he declared to you (masculine plural)
`H1696-12`	daberi	Speak forth!
`H1696-13`	dabero	declare to him
`H1696-14`	daberu	Speak forth, you men!
`H1697-12`	davar	a spoken-word
`H1698-04`	daver	a destroying pestilence
`H1705-01`	daverat	Daberath (Word-Place)
`H1696-15`	davur	uttered (masculine singular)
`H1697-13`	devar	word-of
`H3810-02`	devar	word-of
`H1697-14`	devaray	my words
`H1697-15`	devarayikhe	your spoken-words (feminine singular)
`H1697-16`	devarayv	his spoken-words
`H1697-17`	devarekha	your spoken word
`H1697-18`	devarenu	our word
`H1697-19`	devareyha	her spoken-matters
`H1697-20`	devareykha	your spoken-words
`H1698-05`	devareykha	your spoken-words
`H1697-21`	devari	my spoken-word
`H1697-22`	devarim	spoken-words
`H1697-23`	devaro	his spoken-word
`H1698-06`	dever	destroying pestilence
`H1688-01`	devir	Word-Place (Debir)
`H1687-02`	devir	Word-Place (Debir)
`H1688-02`	devirah	Debir-ward
`H1683-01`	devorah	Bee-woman
`H1696-16`	dibarenu	we have declared
`H1696-17`	dibareta	you (masculine singular) have declared
`H1696-18`	dibarete	you (feminine) have declared
`H1696-19`	dibaretem	you men have declared
`H1696-20`	dibareti	I have declared
`H1696-21`	diber	he declared
`H1696-22`	diberah	she has declared
`H1696-23`	dibero	he has declared it
`H1696-24`	diberu	they have declared
`H1701-01`	diverat	matter-of
`H1700-01`	diverat	matter-of
`H1700-02`	diverati	my word-matter
`H1697-24`	diverey	words of
`H1697-25`	divereyhem	their spoken-matters
`H1697-26`	divereykhem	your spoken matters
`H1704-01`	diveri	Word-Man (Dibri)
`H1696-25`	dover	one speaking
`H1696-26`	doverey	speakers of
`H1696-27`	doverim	those who are speaking
`H1702-01`	doverot	driving rafts
`H1696-28`	doverot	women who are speaking
`H1697-27`	dvr	a spoken word
`H1696-29`	dvrty	I have declared
`H1697-28`	dvrv	his spoken word
`H1697-29`	dvrvv	his spoken matters
`H1697-30`	dvry	my spoken-word
`H1697-31`	dvrykh	your spoken-words
`H1697-32`	dvryv	his spoken-words
`H1697-33`	hadavar	the spoken-word
`H1698-07`	hadaver	the destroying pestilence
`H1705-02`	hadaverat	the Pasture-place
`H1907-01`	hadaveray	my word-counselors
`H1907-02`	hadaveraya	the administrators
`H1699-01`	hadavero	his ordered pasture-fold
`H1697-34`	hadevarim	the spoken matters
`H1698-08`	hadever	the destroying pestilence
`H1687-03`	hadevir	the oracle-chamber
`H1682-02`	hadevorim	the order-moving bees
`H1696-30`	hadover	the one speaking
`H1696-31`	hadoverot	the speaking women
`H1696-32`	hamedaber	the declaring one
`H1696-33`	hamedaberim	the ones speaking
`H4057-03`	hamidebar	the driven-open wilderness
`H4057-04`	hamidebarah	toward the pasture-wilderness
`H1696-34`	hanidebarim	the ones speaking-together
`H1697-35`	kadavar	according to the spoken word
`H1697-36`	kadevarim	according to the words
`H4057-05`	kamidebar	like the wilderness-pasture
`H1696-35`	kedaber	as one declaring
`H1696-36`	kedaberah	as she declared it
`H1696-37`	kedaberekhem	according to your speaking (you men)
`H1699-02`	kedaveram	like their arranged pasture-fold
`H1697-37`	kediverey	like the words of
`H1697-38`	kedivereykhem	according to your words
`H4057-06`	khamidebar	like the driven-wilderness
`H1697-39`	khdvrykh	according to your spoken-words
`H1697-40`	khedivereykhem	according to your spoken words
`H1697-41`	khidevarekha	according to your word
`H1697-42`	khidevarekhe	according to your word
`H1682-03`	khidevorim	like the ordered-swarming bees
`H1697-43`	kidevar	according to the spoken-word of
`H1697-44`	kidevarekha	according to your word
`H1697-45`	kidevareykha	according to your spoken-words
`H1697-46`	ladavar	to the spoken-matter
`H1697-47`	ladevarim	to the words
`H1698-09`	ladever	to the destroying-plague
`H1687-04`	ladevir	to the Inner-Oracular Shrine
`H4057-07`	lamidebar	to the driving-wilderness
`H1697-48`	ldvrykh	to your words
`H1696-38`	ledaber	to speak forth
`H1697-49`	ledavar	to a spoken-matter
`H1697-50`	lediverey	to the words of
`H1697-51`	ledivereyhem	to their spoken matters
`H1697-52`	ledivereykhem	to your spoken words
`H1907-03`	lehadaverohi	to his word-counsellors
`H4057-08`	lemidebar	to a driving-wilderness
`H1697-53`	lidevar	to the spoken-word of
`H1697-54`	lidevaray	to my spoken-matters
`H1697-55`	lidevarekha	to your word
`H1697-56`	lidevaro	to his word
`H1688-03`	lidevir	to the Word-Sanctum
`H1687-05`	lidevir	to the oracle-shrine
`H1688-04`	lidevirah	to Debir-ward
`H1696-39`	medaber	one who is speaking
`H1696-40`	medaberet	she who is speaking forth
`H1696-41`	medaberim	those declaring
`H1696-42`	medaberot	women speaking forth
`H1696-43`	medubar	the one being declared
`H4057-09`	mehamidebar	from the driven-open wilderness
`H1696-44`	midaber	one speaking forth
`H1703-01`	midaberoteykha	from your uttered words
`H1697-57`	midavar	from a word
`H4057-10`	midebar	driving-wilderness of
`H4057-11`	midebarah	her pasture-wilderness
`H1697-58`	midevar	from a spoken-matter of
`H1698-10`	midever	from the destroying pestilence
`H1697-59`	midiverey	from the words of
`H1697-60`	midivereyhem	from their words
`H4057-12`	mimidebar	from the pasture-wilderness of
`H1696-45`	nedaber	we will declare
`H1696-46`	nidebarenu	we spoke together
`H1696-47`	nidebaru	they spoke together
`H1696-48`	nideberu	they spoke together
`H1696-49`	sheyedubar	that he be spoken of
`H1696-50`	tedaber	you (masculine singular) shall declare
`H1696-51`	tedaberenah	they (feminine) will speak forth
`H1696-52`	tedaberi	you (feminine singular) declare
`H1696-53`	tedaberu	you men shall speak forth
`H1696-54`	tedaberun	you (masculine plural) shall declare
`H1697-61`	udevar	and the word-of
`H1697-62`	udevaray	and my spoken-words
`H1697-63`	udevarayv	and the words of him
`H1697-64`	udevareykha	and your spoken-words
`H1697-65`	udevarim	and spoken-matters
`H1687-06`	udevir	and the oracle-shrine
`H1683-02`	udevorah	and Deborah (Bee-woman)
`H1696-55`	uledaber	and to declare
`H1698-11`	uledaver	and to a destroying-plague
`H1696-56`	umedaber	and he who is arranging-words
`H1696-57`	umidaber	and while declaring
`H1698-12`	umidaver	and from destroying-pestilence
`H4057-13`	umidebareykhe	and your wilderness-tracts
`H1697-66`	umidevarekha	and from your spoken word
`H1697-67`	umidivereyhem	and from their words
`H4057-14`	umimidebar	and from the pasture-wilderness
`H1696-58`	utedaber	and she will arrange-words / and you (ms) will arrange-words
`H1697-68`	uvadavar	and in the spoken-matter
`H1698-13`	uvadaver	and by the destroying pestilence
`H1698-14`	uvadever	and by the destroying pestilence
`H4057-15`	uvamidebar	and in the driven-wilderness
`H1696-59`	uvedaber	and in declaring
`H1696-60`	uvedaberi	and in my speaking
`H1696-61`	uvedabero	and in his speaking
`H1697-69`	uvidevar	and in the word-of
`H1697-70`	uvidevarekha	and by your spoken word
`H1696-62`	vaadaber	and I declared
`H1696-63`	vaadaberah	and I will declare
`H1697-71`	vadavar	in the word-matter
`H1698-15`	vadever	and a destroying-plague
`H4057-16`	vamidebar	in the driving-wilderness
`H1696-64`	vatedaber	and she declared
`H1696-65`	vatedaberenah	and they (women) spoke forth
`H1696-66`	vayadeber	and he declared
`H1696-67`	vayedaber	And he spoke forth
`H1696-68`	vayedaberem	and he declared them
`H1696-69`	vayedaberu	and they spoke forth
`H1696-70`	vedaber	and speak forth!
`H1696-71`	vedabero	in his speaking-forth
`H1696-72`	vedaberu	and you men declared
`H1697-72`	vedavar	a spoken matter
`H1698-16`	vedever	and a destroying-plague
`H1696-73`	vedibareta	and you shall declare
`H1696-74`	vedibaretam	and you (masculine singular) spoke them
`H1696-75`	vedibarete	and you (feminine) declared
`H1696-76`	vedibaretem	and you men shall declare
`H1696-77`	vedibareti	and I spoke forth
`H1696-78`	vediber	and he declared
`H1696-79`	vediberu	and they declared
`H1697-73`	vediverey	and words of
`H1696-80`	vedover	and he who speaks
`H1697-74`	vehadavar	and the spoken-matter
`H1698-17`	vehadaver	and the destroying pestilence
`H1907-04`	vehadaverey	and the counsellors of
`H1697-75`	vehadevarim	and the words
`H1698-18`	vehadever	and the destroying pestilence
`H1699-03`	vehadiber	and the pasture-fold
`H1696-81`	vehadoverim	and the speaking men
`H1687-07`	veladevir	and to the oracle-chamber
`H1682-04`	veladevorah	and for the orderly-moving bee
`H1697-76`	velidevaro	and for his word
`H4057-17`	vemidebar	in the driving-wilderness of
`H1696-82`	vidaberu	and they declared
`H1697-77`	videvar	in the word of
`H1697-78`	videvaray	with my words
`H1697-79`	videvarayv	in his spoken-words
`H1697-80`	videvareyha	in the words of her
`H1697-81`	vmdvrykh	and from your spoken-words
`H1697-82`	vvdvrykh	and in your words
`H1696-83`	vydvr	and he declared
`H1696-84`	yadeber	he will subdue
`H1696-85`	yedaber	he will speak forth
`H1696-86`	yedaberu	they will speak forth

Word Usage (4 occurrences of H1682)

Location	Form	Transliteration	Meaning
Deuteronomy 1:44	הַ/דְּבֹרִ֑ים	hadevorim	the bees
Judges 14:8	דְּבוֹרִ֛ים	devorim	of bees
Isaiah 7:18	וְ/לַ֨/דְּבוֹרָ֔ה	veladevorah	and for the bee
Psalms 118:12	כִ/דְבוֹרִ֗ים	khidevorim	like bees

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Lexicon H1682

Morphology HNcfpa All morphology codes

SIBI-P1 H1682-01

Words from Root דבר (speech, utterance, ordering, arrangement, orderly movement)

Word Usage (4 occurrences of H1682)

Lexicon `H1682`

Morphology `HNcfpa` All morphology codes

SIBI-P1 `H1682-01`