H1677 - דֹּב (dôb)

H1677 דֹּב (dôb) dobe

Hebrew

Noun (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

bear

Strong's Definition

the bear (as slow)

Derivation: or (fully) דּוֹב; from H1680 (דָּבַב);

KJV Usage: bear.

TWOT Reference: 396a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) bear

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G715 G3074

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

bear Aramaic equivalent: dov (דֹּב "bear" H1678)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

דּוֹב / דֹּב dôb BDB Definition: 1) bear Part of Speech: noun masculine or feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H1680 Same Word by TWOT Number: 396a Total KJV Occurrences: 12

Bible Occurrences (12)

17:34 17:36 17:37

17:8

2:24

17:12 28:15

11:7 59:11

3:10

13:8

5:19

1 Samuel 17:34

David replied -, Your servant has been tending... his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion... or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant has killed lions... and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

1 Samuel 17:37

David added, The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion [and] the bear..., will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” Go, said Saul -, and may the LORD be with you.”

2 Samuel 17:8

[He] continued, You know your father and his men.... They [are] mighty men, and as fierce...... as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father [is] a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.

2 Kings 2:24

Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled... forty-two... of the boys.

Proverbs 17:12

[It is better] to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

Isaiah 11:7

The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.