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Lexicon :: Strong's H1698 - deḇer

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דֶּבֶר
Transliteration
deḇer
Pronunciation
deh'-ber
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From דָּבַר (H1696) (in the sense of destroying)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 399b

Strong’s Definitions

דֶּבֶר deber, deh'-ber; from H1696 (in the sense of destroying); a pestilence:—murrain, pestilence, plague.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x

The KJV translates Strong's H1698 in the following manner: pestilence (47x), plagues (1x), murrain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x
The KJV translates Strong's H1698 in the following manner: pestilence (47x), plagues (1x), murrain (1x).

  1. pestilence, plague

  2. murrain, cattle disease, cattle-plague

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דֶּבֶר deber, deh'-ber; from H1696 (in the sense of destroying); a pestilence:—murrain, pestilence, plague.
STRONGS H1698: Abbreviations
דֶּ֫בֶר 49 noun masculine pestilence (compare Arabic دَبْرٌ, إِدْبَارٌ, departure, death) — Exodus 9:3 +; דָּ֑בֶר Habakkuk 3:5; suffix דְּבָרֶיךָ Hosea 13:14; —
1. plague, pestilence, in general Exodus 5:3; Exodus 9:15; Numbers 14:12 (J) Leviticus 26:25 (H) Deuteronomy 28:21; 2 Samuel 24:13, 15 (+ 2 Samuel 24:15a Greek Version of the LXX We Dr) = 1 Chronicles 21:12, 14; 1 Kings 8:37 2 Chronicles 6:28; 7:13; 20:9; Psalm 91:3; Psalm 91:6; Jeremiah 14:12 + 16 times Jeremiah; Ezekiel 5:12 + 11 times Ezekiel; Hosea 13:14; Amos 4:10; Habakkuk 3:5. Read וּבַדָּ֑בֶר, or the like, 1 Samuel 4:8, for MT בַּמִּדְבָּר, We Klo Dr.
†2. cattle-plague, murrain Exodus 9:3 (J) = Psalm 78:50.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

5:3; 9:3; 9:3; 9:15

Leviticus

26:25

Numbers

14:12

Deuteronomy

28:21

1 Samuel

4:8

2 Samuel

24:13; 24:15; 24:15

1 Kings

8:37

1 Chronicles

21:12; 21:14

2 Chronicles

6:28; 7:13; 20:9

Psalms

78:50; 91:3; 91:6

Jeremiah

14:12

Ezekiel

5:12

Hosea

13:14; 13:14

Amos

4:10

Habakkuk

3:5; 3:5

H1698

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1698 matches the Hebrew דֶּבֶר (deḇer),
which occurs 49 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3 - the hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:15 - For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:12 - I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:21 - The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come on you three[fn] years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:15 - So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - “When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - three years of famine, three months of being swept away[fn] before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:14 - So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - “When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - ‘If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:50

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:50 - He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:3 - Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:6 - nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:12 - Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - I will strike down those who live in this city—both man and beast—and they will die of a terrible plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - After that, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - “ ‘ “If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - Why will you and your people die by the sword, famine and plague with which the LORD has threatened any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - From early times the prophets who preceded you and me have prophesied war, disaster and plague against many countries and great kingdoms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:17 - yes, this is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will send the sword, famine and plague against them and I will make them like figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse[fn] and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - “See how the siege ramps are built up to take the city. Because of the sword, famine and plague, the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. What you said has happened, as you now see.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 - “You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon’; but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom’ for you, declares the LORD—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but whoever goes over to the Babylonians[fn] will live. They will escape with their lives; they will live.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - Indeed, all who are determined to go to Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, famine and plague; not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:22 - So now, be sure of this: You will die by the sword, famine and plague in the place where you want to go to settle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - I will punish those who live in Egypt with the sword, famine and plague, as I punished Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:12 - A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:17 - I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the LORD have spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - Outside is the sword; inside are plague and famine. Those in the country will die by the sword; those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine and plague, so that in the nations where they go they may acknowledge all their detestable practices. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments—sword and famine and wild beasts and plague—to kill its men and their animals!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23 - I will send a plague upon you and make blood flow in your streets. The slain will fall within you, with the sword against you on every side. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:22 - I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:14 - “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? “I will have no compassion,

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - “I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:5 - Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps.
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