ד – Dalet – Biblical Hebrew Study Dictionary

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Hebrew Word – English Transliteration – Meanings – Word Construction – Notes

 

[Color Code, Transliteration Chart, and Chart of Letter Meanings are at the bottom of this page.]

 

 

ד

דב       DB     bear                                                         

unknown

– doesn’t occur until 1 Samuel 17:34.


דבק    DBQ     cling

‘connection… tent… enduring’


דביר   DBYR     inner sanctuary             

‘path through… tent… make… body’


דבר    DBR     reveal / word / news / pestilence

‘door… tent… man’

– literally, the door to the tent of a man.


דבש    DBSh     honey

‘path through… tent… fill’


דג       DG     fish                                       

‘path through… move away’

דגון  DGWN   the Philistine fish-deity named  ‘dagon’.


דגל     DGL     banner / standard             

‘connection… gather… far reaching’


דגן      DGN     grain                                  

‘path through… gather… emerging’

– also  ד = path through + גן = garden


דהב    DHB     gold                                             

– from  זהב  meaning ‘gold’.


דוד    DWD      love / beloved / uncle

ד = connection + יד = hand

– meaning: held.


דוד     DWD     David (famous king)                

‘path through… add to… path through’

– perhaps describes the work of a leader in a succession of leaders.


דור      DWR     generation / era

‘path through… add to… body’


דור     DWR      dwell          (*Aramaic)


דוש     DWSh     trample / thresh               

‘path through… add … doubles’

– ‘doubles’ refers to multiple similar things, such as broken pieces.


די       DY     sufficient / enough                

‘path through… bring forth’

This word is a philosophical deduction of a scenario.   What a path through provides, or brings forth, along the way will be sufficient.


דין     DYN     judge                        

‘path through… bring… ahead’

מדון  MDWN   strife                    

מדינה  MDYNH   province                                   

מדין  MDYN   contention


דכא    DKA     crush / powder                    

‘connection… hand… source’


דל      DL     hang low / poor  

‘connection… extending’

– describes something connected but extending.


דלת     DLTh     door

‘path through… extending… unite’


דם       DM      blood

‘path through… water’

– water is likely used here to represent ‘a liquid’.

– or: ‘connection… physical’.


דמה    DMH     to be like / intend / ruined / cut off     

‘connection… physical… be’

דמות  DMWTh    likeness


דמם    DMM     be silent                            

‘path through… physical… water’

– perhaps refers to the lessening of sound under water.


דמע   DMO     to weep                   

‘path through… water… seen’

דמעה  DMOH    tears


דן       DN     Dan (son of Jacob / tribe of Israel)

‘path through… ahead’


דק       DQ     thin                             

‘path through… enduring’

דקק  DQQ    crush


דקר     DQR      pierce                      

ד = path through + קור = bore (a hole)


דרדר  DRDR     thistles                   

‘connection… body… path through… man’


דרך     DRK     road

‘path through… body… carry’


דרום  DRWM     south                    

ד = path through + רום = high

– first occurs in Deuteronomy 33:23.


דרש     DRSh     seek    

‘path through… man… fill’

This word is defined by its purpose.  The reason a man endeavors to travel, or fill, a path through is to ‘seek’ something he’s missing


דשא    DShA      grass / sprout 

ד = path through + נשא = lift up


דשן   DShN     fat / ashes                         

‘path through… fill… emerging’


דת      DTh     law                                     

‘path through… together’

or:  ‘connection… together’


 

 

 

Color Code

Black = Words constructed only by letter meanings.

Purple = Words constructed with root words + letter meanings.

Brown Italics  =  Related words with meanings derived via logic, context or unknown.

Brown Bold = Words derived via grammar rules.

Red = Unknown word construction.

 

 

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