Pestilence
דֶּ֫בֶרStrong’s H1698dever (de-ver)
Appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dever is the Hebrew word usually translated “pestilence”. It appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
Meaning
- Pestilence, plague
- Murrain, cattle disease, cattle-plague
How it's translated
- pestilence 11
- and by pestilence 9
- and pestilence 6
- a pestilence 4
- with pestilence 3
- by pestilence 3
- the pestilence 2
- and with pestilence 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 17
- Ezekiel 11
- Exodus 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Psalms 3
- 2 Samuel 2
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 9:3Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
- Exodus 9:15For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
- Leviticus 26:25And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Numbers 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
- Deuteronomy 28:21The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
- 2 Samuel 24:13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
All 48 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
דֶּ֫בֶר dever · pestilence
1) pestilence, plague 2) murrain, cattle disease, cattle-plague
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.