2070. zebub
Strong's Concordance
zebub: a fly
Original Word: זְבוּב
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: zebub
Phonetic Spelling: (zeb-oob')
Short Definition: flies
Brown-Driver-Briggs
זְבוּב noun masculineEcclesiastes 10:1 fly (as moving to and fro in the air? compare Fl NHWBi. 438 b; Late Hebrew id., Assyrian zumbu, DlS 63 f.; Arabic , Aramaic דִּיבָבָא, , ); — literal only זְבוּבֵי מָוֶת Ecclesiastes 10:1 i.e. dead flies; so AV RV Hi Now and others; > ᵐ5 De and others death-bringing, deadly flies; זְבוּב metaphor of Egyptian army Isaiah 7:18 ("" דְּבוֺרָה, bee, of Assyrian); on בַּעַל זְבוּב see בַּעַל II. 4, p. 127 above

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
fly

From an unused root (meaning to flit); a fly (especially one of a stinging nature) -- fly.

Forms and Transliterations
זְב֣וּבֵי זבובי לַזְּב֔וּב לזבוב laz·zə·ḇūḇ lazzəḇūḇ lazzeVuv zə·ḇū·ḇê zəḇūḇê zeVuvei
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2 Occurrences


laz·zə·ḇūḇ — 1 Occ.
zə·ḇū·ḇê — 1 Occ.

Ecclesiastes 10:1
HEB: זְב֣וּבֵי מָ֔וֶת יַבְאִ֥ישׁ
NAS: Dead flies make a perfumer's oil
KJV: Dead flies cause the ointment
INT: flies Dead stink

Isaiah 7:18
HEB: יִשְׁרֹ֤ק יְהוָה֙ לַזְּב֔וּב אֲשֶׁ֥ר בִּקְצֵ֖ה
NAS: will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part
KJV: shall hiss for the fly that [is] in the uttermost part
INT: will whistle the LORD the fly is in remotest

2 Occurrences

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