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Strong's #1706 - דְּבַשׁ
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1) honey
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2094) sbd (דבסה DBSh) AC: ? CO: Honey AB: ?: A thick, sticky substance such as dates or honey. [from: bd- a slow moving substance]
Nm ) sbd (דבסה DBSh) - Honey: Also dates as thick sticky and sweet food. KJV (54): honey - Strongs: H1706 (דְּבַשׁ)
Nf2) tsbd (דבסהת DBShT) - Hump: The hump of a camel as a sticky mass. KJV (1): bunch - Strongs: H1707 (דַּבֶּשֶׁת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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) date-honey; Late Hebrew דְּבַשׁ, Aramaic דּובשא, 
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, honey both of fruits and of bees; compare also Assyrian dišpu COT Gloss Zim BP 84 Dl Proverbs 70) — absolute ׳ד Genesis 43:11 33t.; דְּבָ֑שׁ Exodus 3:8 18t.; suffix דִּבְשִׁי Song of Solomon 5:1; — honey, product of bees, used as food Judges 14:8,9,18 (in lion's carcass); found in (clefts of) rock Deuteronomy 32:13 (מִסֶּלַע׳ד, in Song of Solomon , J E), Psalm 81:17 (׳מִצּוּר ד); in woods, on ground 1 Samuel 14:25 (עלפֿני השׂדה) 1 Samuel 14:26 (׳הֵלֶךְ ד; but read rather הָלַךְ דְּבֹרוֺ its bees had departed, We Dr after ᵐ5) 1 Samuel 14:29; 1 Samuel 14:43; transported in jar or bottle ׳בַּקְבֻּק ד 1 Kings 14:3; contribution to priests and Levites 2 Chronicles 31:5; "" חֶמְאָה 2 Samuel 17:29; Isaiah 7:15,22 (in last two the being limited to such food is apparently token of destitution); kept in store Jeremiah 41:8; a choice gift Genesis 43:11 (J); article of trade Ezekiel 27:17 (in these two perhaps = grape syrup, modern dibs, compare Di Genesis 43:11 see Rob BR ii. 81); forbidden as burnt offering Leviticus 2:11 ("" שְׂאֹר); honey comb = ׳יַעְרַת הַדּ 1 Samuel 14:27 (compare יַעְרִי Song of Solomon 5:1); also ׳צוּף ד Proverbs 16:24 (compare נֹפֶת צופים Psalm 19:11); most often in phrase describing abundance in land of Canaan ׳אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּד Exodus 3:8,17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:3 (all J E) Leviticus 20:24 (H) Numbers 13:27; Numbers 14:8; Numbers 16:18,14 (all J E) Deuteronomy 6:3; Deuteronomy 11:9; Deuteronomy 26:9,15; Deuteronomy 27:3; Deuteronomy 31:20 (all D) Joshua 5:6 (D) Jeremiah 11:5; Jeremiah 32:22; Ezekiel 20:6,15; compare Deuteronomy 8:8; 2 Kings 18:32 (of land of captivity, words of the Rabshak); see also Ezekiel 16:13,19; Job 20:17 וְחֶמְאָה׳נַחֲלֵי ד; honey, used to illustrate moral teachings Proverbs 24:13 ("" נֹפֶת), Proverbs 25:16,27 (danger of surfeit); simile of sweetness of taste Ezekiel 3:3 (the roll), compare כְּצַמִּיחִת׳בִּד Exodus 16:31 (P; description of manna); of sweetness of the law Psalm 19:11 ("" נֹפֶת צוּפִים) compare Psalm 119:103; (of pleasant words Proverbs 16:24 compare above); sweetness of lips וְחָלָב׳ד Song of Solomon 4:11; figurative of love דִּבְשִׁי Song of Solomon 5:1 ("" יַעְרִי, יֵינִי, חֲלָבִי).
דְּבַשׁ with suff. דִּבְשִׁי m., honey [“so called as being soft like a kneaded mass”]. Arab. دِبْسُ, Syr. ܪܶܒܫܐܳ id. Maltese dibsi, yellow, i.e. honey colour, No verb from which this noun can come exists in the Phœnicio-Shemitic languages; but there is also formed from such a verb, Gr. τιθαιβώσσω to make honey, Od. xiii. 106. Specially it is
(1) honey of bees, Leviticus 2:11; 1 Samuel 14:26, 27 1 Samuel 14:27, 29 1 Samuel 14:29, 43 1 Samuel 14:43; Proverbs 16:24, 24:13, etc. Used of wild or wood honey, Deuteronomy 32:13 Psal. 81:17, מִצּוּר דְּבַשׁ אַשְׂבִּיעֶךָּ “with honey out of the rock would I have supplied thee.”
(2) honey of grapes, i.e. must or new wine boiled down to a third or half; (Gr. ἕψημα, Lat. sapa, defrutum, Ital. musto cotto;) which is now commonly carried into Egypt out of Palestine, especially out of the district of Hebron (comp. Russel’s Natural History of Aleppo, p. 20); Genesis 43:11; Ezekiel 27:17.
[“Milk and honey are often joined together as being delicacies provided by nature, Ezekiel 8:17, 13:8 33:3 Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 13:27 used of very pleasant discourse, Song of Solomon 4:11.”]
