STRONGS NUMBER H1677


Word Summary
dob: a bear
Original Word: דֹּב
Transliteration: dob
Phonetic Spelling: (dobe)
Part of Speech: Noun
Short Definition: a bear
Meaning: the bear
Strong's Concordance
bear

Or (fully) dowb {dobe}; from dabab; the bear (as slow) -- bear.

see HEBREW dabab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1677. dob

דֹּבnoun masculineProverbs 28:15, feminine2 Kings 2:24 (seldom) bear (from soft or gliding motion, Late Hebrew id., Ethiopic Assyrian dabû (?) DlS 55; Aramaic דּוּבָּא‎, ; Arabic , , is however a loan-word compare HomNS 301 f.); — absolute דֹּבAmos 5:19 5t.; דּוֺב1 Samuel 17:34 2t.; plural דֻּבִּים2 Kings 2:24; Isaiah 59:11; — bear, female 2 Kings 2:24; 2 Samuel 17:8; Proverbs 17:12; Hosea 13:8 compare Isaiah 11:7; undetermined 1 Samuel 17:34, 36, 37; Amos 5:19; Proverbs 28:15; Isaiah 59:11; Lamentations 3:10, 10 (on article 1 Samuel 17:34; Amos 5:19 compare RSSem, i. 119 n.)

דּוֺבbear, see below דבב‎.

דּוּגָה דַּוָּג, דוג,‎ see below דגה

דוד‎ (√ assumed for following, which however perhaps primitive caressing word, Fl NHWBi. 439 swing, rock, dandle, fondle, love; > Thes DietrSemitic Wortforsch. 277 MV, who connect with דּוּד‎ (compare below) compare Syriac disturb).

דֹּבnoun [masculine] bear (so ᵑ7‎ Biblical Hebrew √ דבב‎; Syriac ); — absolute ׳דDaniel 7:5.