STRONGS NUMBER H2070


Word Summary
zebub: a fly
Original Word: זְבוּב
Transliteration: zebub
Phonetic Spelling: (zeb-oob')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a fly
Meaning: a fly
Strong's Concordance
fly

From an unused root (meaning to flit); a fly (especially one of a stinging nature) -- fly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2070. zebub

זְבוּבnoun masculineEcclesiastes 10:1 fly (as moving to and fro in the air? compare Fl NHWBi. 438 b; Late Hebrew id., Assyrian zumbu, DlS 63 f.; Arabic , Aramaic דִּיבָבָא‎, , ); — literal only מָוֶת זְבוּבֵי10:1 i.e. dead flies; so AV RV Hi Now and others; > ᵐ5‎ De and others death-bringing, deadly flies; זְבוּב‎ metaphor of Egyptian army Isaiah 7:18 ("" דְּבוֺרָה‎, bee, of Assyrian); on זְבוּב בַּעַל‎ see בַּעַל‎ II. 4, p. 127 above