To glide
דָּבַבStrong’s H1680davav (da-vav)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Davav is the Hebrew word usually translated “flows gently”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.”
Meaning
- To move gently, glide, glide over(Qal) glide over (participle)
How it's translated
- flows gently 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
דָּבַב davav · to glide
1) to move gently, glide, glide over 1a) (Qal) glide over (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “glide” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GLIDE, verb intransitive
- To flow gently; to move without noise or violence; as a river.
- To move silently and smoothly; to pass along without apparent effort; as a hawk or an eagle gliding through the air.
- To move or pass rapidly and with apparent ease; as, a ship glides through the water.
- In a general sense, to move or slip along with ease as on a smooth surface, or to pass along rapidly without apparent effort, and without obstruction.
All definitions and other forms of “glide”
GLIDE, noun
The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.