King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2070
Transliteration: zebub
Phonetic Spelling: (zeb-oob')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a fly
Meaning: a fly
Word Summary
zebub: a fly
Original Word: זְבוּבTransliteration: 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
זְבוּב noun 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 זְבוּבֵי 10:1 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