Wax
דּוֹנַגStrong’s H1749donag (do-nag)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Donag is the Hebrew word usually translated “like wax” and “wax”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”
Meaning
- Wax (always figurative 'of melting')
How it's translated
- like wax 3
- wax 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Micah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 68:2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
- Psalms 97:5The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
- Micah 1:4And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Hebrew dictionary
דּוֹנַג donag · wax
wax (always figurative 'of melting')
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wax” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAX, noun
[G., Latin ]
- A thick, viscid, tenacious substance, collected by bees, or excreted from their bodies, and employed in the construction of their cells; usually called bees wax Its native color is yellow, but it is bleached for candles, etc.
- A thick tenacious substance excreted in the ear.
- A substance secreted by certain plants, forming a silvery powder on the leaves and fruit, as in the wax-palm and wax-myrtle.
- A substance found on the hinder legs of bees, which is supposed to be their food.
All definitions and other forms of “wax”
- A substance used in sealing letters; called sealing-wax, or Spanish wax This is a composition of gum-lacca and resin, colored with some pigment.
- A thick substance used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
WAX, verb transitive
To smear or rub with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
WAX, verb intransitive
preterit tense waxed.; participle passive waxed or waxen. [G., Latin, Gr.]
- To increase in size; to grow; to become larger; as the waxing and the waning moon.
- To pass from one state to another; to become; as, to wax strong; to wax warm or cold; to wax feeble; to wax hot; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
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.