Brown-Driver-Briggs
דֹּב noun masculineProverbs 28:15,
feminine2Kings 2:24 (seldom) bear (from soft or gliding motion, Late Hebrew
id., Ethiopic

Assyrian
dabû (?) Dl
S 55; Aramaic
דּוּבָּא,

; Arabic

,

, is however a loan-word compare Hom
NS 301 f.); — absolute
דֹּב Amos 5:19 5t.;
דּוֺב 1 Samuel 17:34 2t.; plural
דֻּבִּים 2 Kings 2:24;
Isaiah 59:11; —
bear, female
2 Kings 2:24;
2 Samuel 17:8;
Proverbs 17:12;
Hosea 13:8 compare
Isaiah 11:7; undetermined
1 Samuel 17:34,36,37;
Amos 5:19;
Proverbs 28:15;
Isaiah 59:11;
Lamentations 3:10,10 (on article
1 Samuel 17:34;
Amos 5:19 compare RS
Sem, i. 119 n.)
דּוֺב bear, see below דבב.
דוג, דַּוָּג, דּוּגָה see below דגה
דוד (√ assumed for following, which however perhaps primitive caressing word, Fl NHWBi. 439 swing, rock, dandle, fondle, love; > Thes DietrSemitic Wortforsch. 277 MV, who connect with דּוּד (compare below) compare Syriac
disturb).
דֹּב noun [masculine] bear (so ᵑ7 Biblical Hebrew √ דבב; Syriac
); — absolute ׳ד Daniel 7:5.