Lexicon zebub: a fly Original Word: זְבוּבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: zebub Phonetic Spelling: (zeb-oob') Short Definition: flies NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitiona fly NASB Translationflies (1), fly (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs זְבוּב noun masculineEcclesiastes 10:1 fly (as moving to and fro in the air? compare Fl NHWB i. 438 b; Late Hebrew id., Assyrian zumbu, Dl S 63 f.; Arabic  , Aramaic דִּיבָבָא,  ,  ); — literal only זְבוּבֵי מָוֶת Ecclesiastes 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 בַּעַל זְבוּב see בַּעַל II. 4, p. 127 above Strong's fly From an unused root (meaning to flit); a fly (especially one of a stinging nature) -- fly. |
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