דבש
Hebrew
| Root |
|---|
| ד־ב־שׁ (d-b-sh) |
| 1 term |
Etymology
Cognate with Arabic دِبْس (dibs, “molasses”), Aramaic דֻּבְשָׁא, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܕܸܒ݂ܫܵܐ (diḇšā), and Akkadian 𒋭 (dišpum).
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /dvaʃ/
Noun
דְּבַשׁ • (dvash) m (singular construct דְּבַשׁ־) [pattern: קְטַל]
- (uncountable) honey
Declension
| isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
| m | f | m | f | ||||
| singular | indefinite | דְּבַשׁ | first | דִּבְשִׁי | דִּבְשֵׁנוּ | ||
| definite | הַדְּבַשׁ | second | דִּבְשְׁךָ | דִּבְשֵׁךְ | דִּבְשְׁכֶם | דִּבְשְׁכֶן | |
| construct | דְּבַשׁ־ | third | דִּבְשׁוֹ | דִּבְשָׁהּ | דִּבְשָׁם | דִּבְשָׁן | |
| singular | indefinite | דְּבַשׁ | first | דובשי / דֻּבְשִׁי | דובשנו / דֻּבְשֵׁנוּ | ||
| definite | הַדְּבַשׁ | second | דובשך / דֻּבְשְׁךָ | דובשך / דֻּבְשֵׁךְ | דובשכם / דֻּבְשְׁכֶם | דובשכן / דֻּבְשְׁכֶן | |
| construct | דְּבַשׁ־ | third | דובשו / דֻּבְשׁוֹ | דובשה / דֻּבְשָׁהּ | דובשם / דֻּבְשָׁם | דובשן / דֻּבְשָׁן | |
Derived terms
- לֹא מדבשך ולֹא מעקצך (lo miduvsh'khá v'ló me'ukts'khá)
- חַלַּת דְּבַשׁ (“honeycomb”)
References
- H1706 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “דְּבַשׁ”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 114b
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 279a
- “דבש” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
- דבש on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he