Lexicon :: Strong's H1698 - deḇer

So the LORD sent a pestilence (plague) [lasting three days] upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

“If there is famine in the land, or if there is pestilence (plague), blight, mildew, migratory locusts, or grasshoppers, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever affliction or plague, whatever sickness [there is],

So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell.

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there are [migratory] locusts or grasshoppers, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,

He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];

He did not spare their souls from death,

But turned over their lives to the plague.

For He will save you from the trap of the fowler,

And from the deadly pestilence.

Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,

Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.

“But any nation or kingdom that will not serve this same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,” says the LORD, “with the sword, with famine and with pestilence (virulent disease), until I have destroyed it by Nebuchadnezzar’s hand.

“Now therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and by famine and by virulent disease.’

“Therefore says the LORD, ‘You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed liberty to your brother and your countryman. Behold (listen very carefully), I am proclaiming liberty to you—[liberty to be put] to the sword, [liberty] to [be ravaged by] the virulent disease, and [liberty] to [be decimated by] famine,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will make you a horror and a warning to all the kingdoms of the earth.

“Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Strike with your fist, stamp with your foot and say, “Alas, because of all the evil atrocities of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, by famine, and by virulent disease!

For thus says the Lord GOD, “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem—sword, famine, predatory beasts, and virulent disease—to cut off man and animal from it!

“For I will send virulent disease to her

And blood into her streets,

And the wounded will fall in her midst

By the sword upon her from every side,

And they shall know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.

Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol (the place of the dead)?

Shall I redeem them from death?

[fn]O death, where are your thorns?

O Sheol, where is your sting?

Compassion is hidden from My eyes [because of their failure to repent].

“I sent a plague among you like [those of] Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses,

I made the stench of your camp rise up into your nostrils;

Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD.

Before Him goes the pestilence [of judgment as in Egypt],

And [the burning] plague [of condemnation] follows at His feet [as in Sennacherib’s army].