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Honey
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Comments: A jar of honey with a honey dipper and an American biscuit
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Comments: Jara honey. Georgia.
From Smith: Honey - The Hebrew debash in the first place applied to the product of the bee, to which exclusively we give the name of honey. All travellers agree in describing Palestine as a land "flowing with milk and honey," (Exodus 3:8) bees being abundant even in the remote parts of the wilderness, where they deposit their honey in the crevices of rocks or in hollow trees. In some parts of northern Arabia the hills are so well stocked with bees that no sooner are hives placed than they are occupied. In the second place the term debash applies to a decoction of the juice of the grape, which is still called dibs, and which forms an article of commerce in the East, it was this, and not ordinary bee-honey, which Jacob sent to Joseph, (Genesis 43:11) and which the Tyrians purchased from Palestine. (Ezekiel 27:17) A third kind has been described by some writers as a "vegetable" honey, by which is meant the exudations of certain trees and shrubs, such as the Tamarix mannifera, found in the peninsula of Sinai, or the stunted oaks of Luristan and Mesopotamia . The honey which Jonathan ate in the wood, (1 Samuel 14:25) and the "wild honey" which supported John the Baptist, (Matthew 3:42) have been referred to this species. But it was probably the honey of wild bees.
Verses:
- Genesis 43:11
- Exodus 3:8
- Exodus 3:17
- Exodus 13:5
- Exodus 16:31
- Exodus 33:3
- Leviticus 2:11
- Leviticus 20:24
- Numbers 13:27
- Numbers 14:8
- Numbers 16:13
- Numbers 16:14
- Deuteronomy 6:3
- Deuteronomy 8:8
- Deuteronomy 11:9
- Deuteronomy 26:9
- Deuteronomy 26:15
- Deuteronomy 27:3
- Deuteronomy 31:20
- Deuteronomy 32:13
- Joshua 5:6
- Judges 14:8
- Judges 14:9
- Judges 14:18
- 1 Samuel 14:25
- 1 Samuel 14:26
- 1 Samuel 14:29
- 1 Samuel 14:43
- 2 Samuel 17:29
- 1 Kings 14:3
- 2 Kings 18:32
- 2 Chronicles 31:5
- Job 20:17
- Psalms 19:10
- Psalms 81:16
- Psalms 119:103
- Proverbs 5:3
- Proverbs 24:13
- Proverbs 25:16
- Proverbs 25:27
- Proverbs 27:7
- Song of Solomon 4:11
- Song of Solomon 5:1
- Isaiah 7:15
- Isaiah 7:22
- Jeremiah 11:5
- Jeremiah 32:22
- Jeremiah 41:8
- Ezekiel 3:3
- Ezekiel 16:13
- Ezekiel 16:19
- Ezekiel 20:6
- Ezekiel 20:15
- Ezekiel 27:17
- Matthew 3:4
- Mark 1:6
- Revelation 10:9
- Revelation 10:10
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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/apo/h/honey.html. 2024.
