UBS Hebrew Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: nsm

Sense 1: fly

Semantic domains: Swarming Creatures (001001002001006)

Core domains: Animal (010)

Definition: = an insect with large composite eyes and a single pair of wings; ◄ |iMusca domestica|i*; ► these insects converge in swarms on (rotting) food, dung, and household garbage; ≈ associated with large quantities

Further resources: Fauna:6.4

Show passage in OET: ECC 10:1

OET-RV ECC 10:1

10 Dead flies make a perfumer’s product stink.
⇔ ≈ Similarly, a little foolishness can ruin all your wisdom or honour.

OET-LV ECC 10:1

10 Flies _of death it _causes _to _stink it _ferments the_oil _of a _perfumer is_weighty more_than _wisdom more_than _honour folly _of a _little.

Show passage in OET: ISA 7:18

OET-RV ISA 7:18

18 When that happens, Yahweh will whistle for a fly that’s in Mitsrayim’s (Egypt) distant streams, and for a bee that’s in Ashur (Assyria).

OET-LV ISA 7:18

18 And_it _was in _the_day (the)_that YHWH he _will _whistle for_fly which is_at_the _end _of the _canals _of Miʦrayim/(Egypt) and_for_bee which in_land of _ʼAshshūr.

Jump to OET ECC 10:1 section.

Jump to OET ISA 7:18 section.

Sense 2: Baal-Zebub

Semantic domains: Names of Deities (003001004)

Definition: literally: "Lord of the Flies", possibly a derogatory epithet for בַּעַל זְבוּל: = deity of people of Ekron

Collocations: בַּעַל זְבוּב

Show passage in OET: KI2 1:2

OET-RV KI2 1:2

2 One day, King Ahazyah fell through a lattice in his upper room in Shomron (Samaria) and was injured, so he sent messengers to go and ask Ekron’s god Ba’al-Zevuv if he would recover.

OET-LV KI2 1:2

2 And_ ʼAḩaz^yāh _he _fell through the_window-lattice in_his _upper _of_room which was_in_Shomrōn and_he _became _ill and_he _sent messengers and_he/it _said to_them go consult (in)_Baˊal- zebub the _god _of ˊEqrōn if I _will _live from_sickness this.

Show passage in OET: KI2 1:3

OET-RV KI2 1:3

3 But Yahweh’s messenger told Eliyah (Elijah) (from Tishbeh), “Leave here and go and meet the Shomron king’s messengers and ask them, ‘Is it because there’s no god in Yisrael that you’re all going to inquire from Ekron’s god Ba’al-Zevuv?

OET-LV KI2 1:3

3 And_the _messenger _of YHWH he _spoke to ʼĒliy^yāh the_Tishbiy arise go _up to_meet the _messengers _of the _king _of Shomrōn and_speak to_them from_not there_is_not a _god in_Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) are_you(pl) going to_consult (in)_Baˊal- zebub the _god _of ˊEqrōn.

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All 4 recorded passages for this sense

KI2: OET KI2 1:2–3 · OET KI2 1:6 · OET KI2 1:16

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

זְבוּב

Form 1

Sense 1: fly

Sense 2: Baal-Zebub