Raft
דֹּבְרוֹתStrong’s H1702doverah (do-ve-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Doverah is the Hebrew word usually translated “rafts”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
Meaning
- Floats, rafts
How it's translated
- rafts 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
דֹּבְרוֹת doverah · raft
floats, rafts
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “raft” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
R'AFT, noun
[Gr. to sew that is, to fasten together, and allied to reeve; or Gr. whence a flooring. See Rafter and Roof.]
All definitions and other forms of “raft”
R'AFT, participle passive
[Latin rapio; bereafian, to snatch away, to bereave.]
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.