דבש

Hebrew

Root
ד־ב־שׁ (d-b-sh)
1 term

דבש

Etymology

Cognate with Arabic دِبْس (dibs, “molasses”), Aramaic דֻּבְשָׁא and Akkadian 𒋭 (dišpum).

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /dvaʃ/

Noun

דְּבַשׁ • (dvash) m (singular construct דְּבַשׁ־) [pattern: קְטַל]

1. (uncountable) honey

Declension

Declension of דְּבַשׁ

Number	Isolated forms		With possessive pronouns
	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, 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