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Strong's #1707 - דַּבֶּשֶׁת
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1) hump (of camel)
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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.
2. proper name, of a location on border of Zebulum Joshua 19:11 דַּבָּ֑שֶׁת.
דַּבֶּשֶׁת f.
(1) the hump, bunch of a camel, Isaiah 30:6. This signification is plain enough from the context, and is expressed by Ch., Syr. and Vulgate; but the etymology has long exercised the ingenuity of interpreters, who have almost all confessed their ignorance. I now think that it may properly mean a bee hive (derived from דְּבַשׁ), and be thus transferred in meaning to a camel’s bunch, because of similarity of appearance. A conjecture lately communicated to me is not amiss, that דַּבֶּשֶׁת by change and transposition of letters may be for דַּגֶּשֶׁת, גַּדֶּשֶׁת a heap. [In Thes. Gesenius ascribes to the root דָּבַשׁ the idea of softness, and hence takes the idea of a camel’s bunch, from its softness in flesh and fat.]
(2) [Dabbasheth], pr.n. of a town, Joshua 19:11.
