נֹפֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5317

flowing honey — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

flowing honey tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹ֫פֶת: n.m. flowing honey, honey from the comb tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Pr 24:13 flowing honey, honey from the comb (Ph. נפת CIS i. 166, 8 b);—נ׳ abs. Pr 5:3 + 3 times, cstr. ψ 19:11;—sweet Pr 24:13 (‖ דְּבַשׁ), cf. 27:7; fig. of sweet words Pr 5:3, and perhaps Ct 4:11 (Bu of kisses; ‖ דְּבַשׁ, חָלָב); in full נ׳ צוּפִים ψ 19:11 honey of (the) combs (comp. with מִשְׁפְּטֵי י׳; ‖ דְּבַשׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: honey (5).

In the verses

Proverbs 27:7 · tree →

נֶ֣פֶשׁ שְׂ֭בֵעָה תָּב֣וּס נֹ֑פֶת וְנֶ֥פֶשׁ רְ֝עֵבָ֗ה כָּל־מַ֥ר מָתֽוֹק׃

Word for word: an.appetite satisfied it.treads.down honey and an.appetite hungry every bitter.[thing] [is].sweet

JPS 1917: The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Proverbs 5:3 · tree →

כִּ֤י נֹ֣פֶת תִּ֭טֹּפְנָה שִׂפְתֵ֣י זָרָ֑ה וְחָלָ֖ק מִשֶּׁ֣מֶן חִכָּֽהּ׃

Word for word: (dm) honey they.drip [the].lips of.a.strange.[woman] and.[is] smooth more than.oil mouth her

JPS 1917: For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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