Honey
נֹ֫פֶתStrong’s H5317nophet (no-phet)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nophet is the Hebrew word usually translated “honey”, “honey of” and “honey from comb”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”
Meaning
- Flowing honey, honey from the comb, a dropping down, honey, honeycomb
How it's translated
- honey 3
- and honey of 1
- and honey from comb 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Psalms 1
- Song of Solomon 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 24:13My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
- Proverbs 27:7The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
- Song of Solomon 4:11Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Hebrew dictionary
נֹ֫פֶת nophet · honey
flowing honey, honey from the comb, a dropping down, honey, honeycomb
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.