Honey
דְּבַשׁStrong’s H1706devash (de-vash)
Appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Devash is the Hebrew word usually translated “honey”, “more than honey” and “honey my”. It appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament.
“And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:”
Meaning
- Honey
How it's translated
- and honey 31
- honey 15
- more than honey 3
- the honey 2
- with honey 1
- honey my 1
- like honey 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 8
- Ezekiel 6
- Exodus 5
- 1 Samuel 5
- Numbers 4
- Proverbs 4
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
- Exodus 3:17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Exodus 13:5And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
- Exodus 16:31And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
- Exodus 33:3Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
- Leviticus 2:11No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
All 54 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
דְּבַשׁ devash · honey
honey
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “honey” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HON'EY, noun
hun'y.
- A sweet vegetable juice, collected by bees from the flowers of plants, and deposited in cells of the comb in hives. honey when pure, is of a moderate consistence, of a whitish color, tinged with yellow, sweet to the taste, of an agreeable smell, soluble in water, and becoming vinous by fermentation.
- Sweetness; lusciousness.
- A word of tenderness; sweetness; sweet one.
All definitions and other forms of “honey”
HON'EY, verb transitive
To talk fondly. [Little used.]
- To sweeten.
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.