Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
2. (n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
3. (n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
4. (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
5. (n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
6. (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
7. (n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
8. (n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
9. (n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
10. (n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
11. (n.) The curling crest of a wave.
12. (n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
13. (n.) The thumb piece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
14. (v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing.
15. (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
16. (n.) Alt. of Combe
17. (n.) A dry measure. See Coomb.
Strong's Hebrew
5317. nopheth -- flowing honey, honey from the comb... << 5316, 5317. nopheth. 5318 >>. flowing honey, honey from the
comb. Transliteration:
nopheth Phonetic Spelling: (no'-feth) Short Definition: honey.
... /hebrew/5317.htm - 6k 6688. tsuph -- (honey) comb
... (honey) comb. Transliteration: tsuph Phonetic Spelling: (tsoof) Short Definition:
honeycomb. ... honeycomb. From tsuwph; comb of honey (from dripping) -- honeycomb. ...
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3293. ya'ar -- wood, forest, thicket
ya'ar. << 3292, 3293. ya'ar. 3293a >>. wood, forest, thicket. Transliteration:
ya'ar Phonetic Spelling: (yah'-ar) Short Definition: comb. honeycomb, forest, wood ...
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3295. yarah -- honeycomb
... of yaar Definition honeycomb NASB Word Usage honeycomb* (1). honey comb, forest.
Feminine of ya'ar, and meaning the same -- (honey-) comb, forest. ...
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1706. debash -- honey
... honeycomb. From an unused root meaning to be gummy; honey (from its stickiness);
by analogy, syrup -- honey((-comb)). << 1705, 1706. debash. 1707 >>. ...
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6689. Tsuph -- ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel
... Or Tsowphay {tso-fah'-ee}; or Tsiyph {tseef}; from tsuwph; honey-comb; Tsuph or
Tsophai or Tsiph, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine -- Zophai ...
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