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Strong's H1698 דֶּבֶר (deber)

Deber means “pestilence” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1698 — emoi (“me”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1698
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 48
Books 14

Strong's H1698 Quick Answer

Strong's H1698 דֶּבֶר (deber) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. deber (deh'-ber) n-m. 1. a pestilence [from H1696 (in the sense of destroying)] It has 48 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include pestilence and murrain. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
deber (deh'-ber) n-m. 1. a pestilence [from H1696 (in the sense of destroying)]
Usage
48 linked usages
Books
14 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
pestilence and murrain

Meaning and Definition

deber (deh'-ber) n-m. 1. a pestilence [from H1696 (in the sense of destroying)] KJV: murrain, pestilence, plague. Root(s): H1696

Original Word
דֶּבֶר
Transliteration
deber
Derivation
Root: דבר First root strongs: 1696
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1698. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1698 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render deber, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

pestilence Exodus 5:3 46× murrain Exodus 9:3

How Strong's H1698 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 48 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1698 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1698 in the Old Testament

48 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 5:3 KJV

And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

Exodus 9:3 KJV

Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

Exodus 9:15 KJV

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

Usage Excerpts

First 48 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1698.

Exodus 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Exodus 9:3 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
Exodus 9:15 Old Testament, KJV
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Leviticus 26:25 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Numbers 14:12 Old Testament, KJV
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Deuteronomy 28:21 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
2 Samuel 24:13 Old Testament, KJV
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
2 Samuel 24:15 Old Testament, KJV
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
1 Kings 8:37 Old Testament, KJV
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
1 Chronicles 21:12 Old Testament, KJV
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
1 Chronicles 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
2 Chronicles 6:28 Old Testament, KJV
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
2 Chronicles 7:13 Old Testament, KJV
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
2 Chronicles 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
Psalms 78:50 Old Testament, KJV
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms 91:3 Old Testament, KJV
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Psalms 91:6 Old Testament, KJV
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Jeremiah 14:12 Old Testament, KJV
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Jeremiah 21:6 Old Testament, KJV
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Jeremiah 21:7 Old Testament, KJV
And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Jeremiah 21:9 Old Testament, KJV
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
Jeremiah 24:10 Old Testament, KJV
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah 27:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah 27:13 Old Testament, KJV
Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah 28:8 Old Testament, KJV
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Jeremiah 29:17 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Jeremiah 29:18 Old Testament, KJV
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Jeremiah 32:24 Old Testament, KJV
Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
Jeremiah 32:36 Old Testament, KJV
And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
Jeremiah 34:17 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jeremiah 38:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
Jeremiah 42:17 Old Testament, KJV
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Jeremiah 42:22 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.
Jeremiah 44:13 Old Testament, KJV
For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
Ezekiel 5:12 Old Testament, KJV
A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 6:11 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Ezekiel 6:12 Old Testament, KJV
He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
Ezekiel 7:15 Old Testament, KJV
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel 12:16 Old Testament, KJV
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 14:19 Old Testament, KJV
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:21 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Ezekiel 28:23 Old Testament, KJV
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 33:27 Old Testament, KJV
Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
Ezekiel 38:22 Old Testament, KJV
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Hosea 13:14 Old Testament, KJV
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Amos 4:10 Old Testament, KJV
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Habakkuk 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1698, grouped by book.

Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 17 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 11 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1698 FAQ

What does deber (דֶּבֶר) mean?

Deber (Strong's H1698) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "pestilence". deber (deh'-ber) n-m. 1. a pestilence [from H1696 (in the sense of destroying)]

How many times is deber (דֶּבֶר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 48 linked usages for Strong's H1698 across 14 books.

Where can I study deber (דֶּבֶר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1698 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate deber (דֶּבֶר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pestilence and murrain. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.