# דְּבַשׁ (devash)

Israeli respelling: de-vash. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1706. 54 Old Testament occurrences.

honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup

King James renderings: honey(-comb).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/devash-h1706

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 43:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/11) — And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down…
- [Exodus 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/8) — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, un…
- [Exodus 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/17) — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, an…
- [Exodus 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/5) — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and th…
- [Exodus 16:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/31) — And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with…
- [Exodus 33:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/3) — Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee…
- [Leviticus 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/2/11) — No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offerin…
- [Leviticus 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/24) — But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey:…
- [Numbers 13:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/27) — And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the frui…
- [Numbers 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/8) — If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
- [Numbers 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/13) — Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou…
- [Numbers 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/14) — Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou…
- [Deuteronomy 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/3) — Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fa…
- [Deuteronomy 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/8) — A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- [Deuteronomy 11:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/9) — And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that flow…
- [Deuteronomy 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/9) — And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- [Deuteronomy 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/15) — Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto o…
- [Deuteronomy 27:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/27/3) — And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD th…
- [Deuteronomy 31:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/20) — For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have ea…
- [Deuteronomy 32:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/13) — He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the ro…
- [Joshua 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/6) — For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were co…
- [Judges 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/14/8) — And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and ho…
- [Judges 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/14/9) — And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told no…
- [Judges 14:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/14/18) — And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a…
- [1 Samuel 14:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/25) — And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
- [1 Samuel 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/26) — And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oat…
- [1 Samuel 14:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/27) — But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, an…
- [1 Samuel 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/29) — Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of th…
- [1 Samuel 14:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/43) — Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of th…
- [2 Samuel 17:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/29) — And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people i…
- [1 Kings 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/3) — And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
- [2 Kings 18:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/32) — Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive an…
- [2 Chronicles 31:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/31/5) — And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey,…
- [Job 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/17) — He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- [Psalms 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/19/10) — More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
- [Psalms 81:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/81/16) — He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
- [Psalms 119:103](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/103) — How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- [Proverbs 16:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/24) — Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- [Proverbs 24:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/13) — My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
- [Proverbs 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/16) — Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
- [Proverbs 25:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/27) — It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
- [Song of Solomon 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/11) — Thy 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 Leban…
- [Song of Solomon 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/1) — I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have dru…
- [Isaiah 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/15) — Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- [Isaiah 7:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/22) — And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat tha…
- [Jeremiah 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/5) — That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then…
- [Jeremiah 32:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/22) — And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
- [Jeremiah 41:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/41/8) — But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of…
- [Ezekiel 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/3) — And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was…
- [Ezekiel 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/13) — Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and…
- [Ezekiel 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/19) — My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour:…
- [Ezekiel 20:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/6) — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing w…
- [Ezekiel 20:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/15) — Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with mi…
- [Ezekiel 27:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/17) — Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and bal…