English Bible words starting with D
616 meanings beginning with D, in alphabetical order. This is page 3 of 7. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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depth4 words
- bathosβάθοςdepth: how far something reaches down, and so how far anything goes past the point where it can be measured
- ḥeqerחֵקֶרa searching out: the probing of a matter to get to the bottom of it, or the hidden bottom such probing is trying to reach
- metsolahמְצוֹלָהthe deep: the deepest part of a body of water, the sea or river floor where things sink out of reach
- omeqעֹמֶקdepthnot studied yet
depths3 words
- tehomתְּהוֹםthe deep: the vast cosmic body of water under and around the world, from the primeval ocean of creation to the springs beneath the ground and the unreachable depths of the sea
- bathosβάθοςdepth: how far something reaches down, and so how far anything goes past the point where it can be measured
- yerekhahיַרְכָהthe farthest or innermost part of a bounded space: its back, its depths, or its remotest edge, measured from the normal way in
deputation1 word
deputies1 word
deputy2 words
Derbe2 words
deride3 words
- saḥaqשָׂחַקto laugh, and by extension to play, celebrate, or mock; the whole range of glad, playful, or scornful laughter.
- la'agלָעַגto mock: to treat someone with open, jeering contempt, usually with derisive laughter
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- of a foreign tongue: to sound like unintelligible babble to the hearer
- diachleuazōδιαχλευάζωto deridenot studied yet
derision6 words
- seḥoqשְׂחֹקa laughingstock: one whom others laugh at in scorn; an object of derision
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- laughter: the sound of mirth, from glad rejoicing to hollow merriment or amusement
- la'agלַעַגderision: contempt that has gone public, either the disgrace of being laughed at or the scornful talk itself
- qelesקֶלֶסderisionnot studied yet
- empaigmonēἐμπαιγμονήderisionnot studied yet
- qallasahקַלָּסָהderisionnot studied yet
- seḥoqשְׂחֹקa laughingstock: one whom others laugh at in scorn; an object of derision
descend6 words
- katabainōκαταβαίνωto move downward, from a higher position to a lower one
- yaradיָרַדto go down: to move from a higher place to a lower one, and (with an object) to bring something down
- katerchomaiκατέρχομαιto come down: to travel or move from a higher place, region, or point down to a lower one
- naḥatנָחֵתto go down, descend, and (when force is applied) to sink in, press down, or bring low.
- neḥatנְחֵתto descendnot studied yet
descend with1 word
descendant4 words
descendants8 words
- spermaσπέρμαseed: the living source from which a plant grows or a line of descendants comes
- zeraזֶרַעoffspring: the descendants a person leaves behind, held together as one ongoing line rather than counted as separate children.
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- seed: what a plant produces to reproduce itself, together with the sowing of it and the crop it yields.
- semen: the male emission from which a child is conceived.
- dorדּוֹרa generation: the people alive together in one stretch of time, and by extension the span of time they fill.
- osphusὀσφῦςthe loins: the lower back and hips where a belt is fastened, and, in the same breath, the part of a man's body his children are said to come from.
- toledahתּוֹלֵדוֹתthe line that comes from a named ancestor: the descendants, family record, or unfolding story that issues from them
descended1 word
descent3 words
- katabasisκατάβασιςdescentnot studied yet
- naḥatנַחַתquiet: the settled calm that is left when strain, noise, and hurry stop
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- a coming down: the downward stroke of something brought down, or what is set down in place
- moradמוֹרָדdescentnot studied yet
describe2 words
desecrate1 word
desert10 words
- apostrephōἀποστρέφωto turn away or turn back: to send a person or thing away from what it was facing, and so to remove it, put it back, or refuse it
- erēmosἔρημοςdeserted: empty of people, whether a wild stretch of country, a quiet out-of-the-way spot, or a place or person left forsaken.
- naphalנָפַלto fall: to go down from standing or from above, a picture Hebrew stretches to cover being killed, bowing to the ground, being overthrown, deserting to an enemy, and a share falling to someone by lot
- midbarמִדְבָּרwilderness: the open, unsettled, unwatered country beyond the farms and towns, where flocks graze and travelers cross at risk
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- mouth: the opening one speaks with, named for the act of speech
- egkataleipōἐγκαταλείπωto abandon someone: to walk away and leave a person stranded in the very trouble they needed you for
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- to leave someone or something remaining: to let a survivor or a remainder be left when the rest is gone
deserted2 words
deserve1 word
deserving2 words
- axiosἄξιοςworthy: weighing as much as something else, and so deserving it, fitting it, or matching it in value
- enochosἔνοχοςheld fast in the wrong so that punishment can follow: answerable to a court, deserving of a sentence, or guilty in relation to what has been violated
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- held fast by something and unable to get out from under it: in its grip
design1 word
designate3 words
- naqavנָקַבto mark someone or something out distinctly, especially by naming: to designate or specify by name
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- to make a hole through something by boring or piercing it
- to speak against God by uttering his Name, taken as blaspheming or cursing him
- prosagoreuōπροσαγορεύωto designatenot studied yet
- prographōπρογράφωto write/designatenot studied yet
- naqavנָקַבto mark someone or something out distinctly, especially by naming: to designate or specify by name
designated1 word
desirable2 words
desire25 words
- thelōθέλωto will: to want, wish, or be disposed toward something, ranging from casual desire to deliberate purpose
- boulomaiβούλομαιto will, wish, or intend: to settle on what one wants, often as a considered choice or firm purpose.
- epithumiaἐπιθυμίαa strong desire: an intense reaching of the heart toward something, which is good or evil depending on what it reaches for
- thelēmaθέλημαwill: what someone has decided shall be, whether a purpose, a desire, or a command
- ḥaphetsחָפֵץto find pleasure in something, so that you want it and lean toward it
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- to bend or make stiff (said of an animal's tail)
desired1 word
desolate6 words
- erēmosἔρημοςdeserted: empty of people, whether a wild stretch of country, a quiet out-of-the-way spot, or a place or person left forsaken.
- shamemשָׁמֵםto be devastated and empty: of places laid waste and of persons struck silent with horror
- natsahנָצָהto fight: to be locked against another party in an open struggle, most often two people coming to blows
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- to be left in ruins: of a city or a countryside, knocked into heaps of rubble and emptied of people
- ḥarevחָרֵבdesolate: emptied out and left in ruins, said of a city, a countryside, or a building
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- dry: food that has had no oil or moisture added to it
- galmudגַּלְמוּדbarren: hard and bare, and so yielding nothing at all
desolating1 word
desolation11 words
- shemamahשְׁמָמָהdesolation: a land emptied of life and left a ruin, and the appalled horror that ruin provokes
- ḥorbahחׇרְבָּהa ruin: a place laid waste, or the state of being laid waste
- shammahשַׁמָּהa horrifying devastation: a place laid waste and abandoned, and the shudder of dread it provokes
- erēmōsisἐρήμωσιςthe laying waste of a place, and the ruined emptiness that laying it waste leaves behind
- ḥorevחֹרֶבdryness at its harshest: the scorching heat of the sun, the drought of withheld rain, or a place dried up into ruin
despair4 words
- apelpizōἀπελπίζωto despairnot studied yet
- ya'ashיָאַשׁto despairnot studied yet
- massahמַסָּהdespair: hope draining away until a person has no courage left
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- a testing, a trial: an ordeal that forces out into the open what someone or something is really made of
- exaporeōἐξαπορέωto despairnot studied yet
despairing1 word
desperate1 word
despise13 words
- qalalקָלַלto be light in weight, and so to be swift, to die down, or to count for little
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- to make something lighter: to ease a burden, or to lower a person's standing
- to declare someone worthless: to revile, or to curse
- to shake something to and fro, and so to work an edge onto a blade
- atheteōἀθετέωto set aside what has been established, treating as void something that was meant to stand: to nullify it, reject it, or break faith with it
- ma'asמָאַסto reject: to refuse someone or something as worthless and push it away
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- to flow away or run: to dissolve and drain off like water or a sore
- bazahבָּזָהto despise: to treat someone or something as worthless and beneath respect.
- atimazōἀτιμάζωto dishonor someone: to publicly deny a person the honor they are owed, treating them as worth nothing
- qalalקָלַלto be light in weight, and so to be swift, to die down, or to count for little
despised2 words
despiser1 word
despoil1 word
despoil a temple1 word
destined1 word
destiny2 words
destitute3 words
destroy29 words
- apolluōἀπολλύωto destroy: to put to death or bring to ruin so that something or someone is wiped out
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- to perish: to come to one's own ruin, to die, to be lost
- kalahכָּלָהto reach a full end, or to bring something to its full end: to finish it, use it up, or wipe it out
- avadאָבַדto perish, to be destroyed, to come to a final end; and, when done to someone else, to destroy them or wipe them out.
- shaḥatשָׁחַתto ruin: to wreck something so it no longer works as it should, whether a thing, a people, or a person's own moral character
- kathaireōκαθαιρέωto bring something down by force: to take it down from where it stands or hangs, tear it down, or remove someone from a place of power
- apolluōἀπολλύωto destroy: to put to death or bring to ruin so that something or someone is wiped out
destroy with1 word
destroyed4 words
- shamemשָׁמֵםto be devastated and empty: of places laid waste and of persons struck silent with horror
- shammahשַׁמָּהa horrifying devastation: a place laid waste and abandoned, and the shudder of dread it provokes
- damahדָּמָהto be brought to an end and hushed: destroyed, cut off, or finished, and (of an activity) simply stopped.
- dummahדֻּמָּהdestroyednot studied yet
destroyer3 words
destroying locust1 word
destruction25 words
- apōleiaἀπώλειαruin, destruction, loss: the wrecking or wasting of something, and in most of the New Testament the final doom of the ungodly
- sheverשֶׁבֶרa breaking: the shattering of something whole, from a snapped bone to the collapse of a whole nation
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- the interpretation of a dream: the unlocking of what a dream means
- erēmōsisἐρήμωσιςthe laying waste of a place, and the ruined emptiness that laying it waste leaves behind
- beliyya'alבְּלִיַּעַלdestruction: deadly ruin, pictured in poetry as a flood that engulfs a person and drags them toward death
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- ruinous worthlessness: the good-for-nothing quality that makes a person or a plan both useless and destructive
- shodשֹׁדforcible devastation: the ruin of violent plundering, whether the destroying act or the havoc it leaves behind
destructive1 word
detachment1 word
detain1 word
- katechōκατέχωto hold fast: to keep a firm, lasting grip on something you have received, so that you do not let it slip
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- to hold back: to keep a person or force in check, confined, or held down, whether by restraining it or by being caught in its grip
- to have and hold as your own: to possess or occupy something, keeping settled title to it
- to make for shore: to steer a ship toward land and head in to the beach
- katechōκατέχωto hold fast: to keep a firm, lasting grip on something you have received, so that you do not let it slip
determine5 words
- krinōκρίνωto judge: to weigh a person or matter and pass a verdict on it.
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- to decide, to resolve: to reach a firm decision or settled purpose about what to do.
- to consider, to regard: to form an opinion and hold that something is the case.
- to go to law, to be brought to trial: to be a party in legal proceedings.
- prostassōπροστάσσωto lay down what is to be done, on the authority to settle the matter: to direct a person, prescribe a requirement, or fix something in advance
- horizōὁρίζωto fix something definitely: to settle a time, a plan, or a person's role so that the matter is no longer open
- gezarגְּזַרto determinenot studied yet
- ḥatakhחָתַךְto determinenot studied yet
- krinōκρίνωto judge: to weigh a person or matter and pass a verdict on it.
determine before1 word
determined2 words
- kalahכָּלָהto reach a full end, or to bring something to its full end: to finish it, use it up, or wipe it out
- ḥaratsחָרַץto whet to a sharp edge; used in the Bible only of sharpening the tongue at someone, the way a dog growls before it bites
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- to settle a matter by cutting it off: to decide, determine, or decree, so that the outcome is fixed and cannot be reopened
detest4 words
- miseōμισέωto hate: to turn against someone or something with deep ill will, and (in a comparative turn of phrase) to set one thing far below another in love or loyalty
- saneשָׂנֵאto detest: to judge something wrong and refuse to have any part in it
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- to hate: to be set against a person in active hostility, so that the one hating becomes an enemy
- to love less: to leave a person unfavored, second to someone who is preferred
- to repudiate: to break off a bond formally, whether a marriage or a covenant
- ta'avתַּעָבto abhor: to find someone or something detestable and turn away from it in loathing
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- to act abominably: to commit deeds so detestable they become an abomination, especially before God
- shaqatsשִׁקֵּץto treat as detestable: to brand something loathsome and push it away in disgust
detestable2 words
detestable thing4 words
- bdelugmaβδέλυγμαsomething God finds utterly loathsome and will not have near him: above all an idol, or the filth that idol worship drags in
- to'evahתּוֹעֵבַהan abomination: something felt as so revolting that it must be rejected and shut out
- shiqqutsשִׁקּוּץa detestable thing: something felt as revolting, above all an idol or the equipment of pagan worship that God loathes
- sheqetsשֶׁקֶץa detestable creature: an animal the law puts off-limits, to be met with open disgust and not merely kept at a distance
detestation1 word
Deuel1 word
devastate1 word
devastated1 word
devastation6 words
- shemamahשְׁמָמָהdesolation: a land emptied of life and left a ruin, and the appalled horror that ruin provokes
- erēmōsisἐρήμωσιςthe laying waste of a place, and the ruined emptiness that laying it waste leaves behind
- shodשֹׁדforcible devastation: the ruin of violent plundering, whether the destroying act or the havoc it leaves behind
- sho'ahשׁוֹאָהsudden, sweeping ruin: catastrophe that overwhelms a person or a place without warning, and the emptied waste it leaves behind.
- meshammahמְשַׁמָּהwasteland: ground wrecked and emptied until nothing lives on it, and the horror of the people who look at it
deviate1 word
device3 words
- maḥashavahמַחֲשָׁבָהskilled design: an inventive work thought up and executed by a craftsman, including a clever device
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- a thought or plan: what the mind works out, whether an inner intention or a deliberate scheme
- mezimmahמְזִמָּהa deliberate, calculated design formed in the mind: a settled plan that reads as shrewd prudence, wicked scheming, or God's fixed purpose, depending on who makes it and to what end
- higgavonהִגָּיוֹןa low murmuring sound made just under the voice: strings humming, a heart musing, enemies muttering.
- maḥashavahמַחֲשָׁבָהskilled design: an inventive work thought up and executed by a craftsman, including a clever device
devices2 words
devil1 word
- diabolosδιάβολοςthe Devil: the personal supernatural enemy of God who accuses and tempts human beings
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- slanderer: a person who damages others with false or malicious accusations and gossip
- diabolosδιάβολοςthe Devil: the personal supernatural enemy of God who accuses and tempts human beings
devilish1 word
- diabolosδιάβολοςthe Devil: the personal supernatural enemy of God who accuses and tempts human beings
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- slanderer: a person who damages others with false or malicious accusations and gossip
- diabolosδιάβολοςthe Devil: the personal supernatural enemy of God who accuses and tempts human beings
devils1 word
- daimonionδαιμόνιονan evil spirit: a real, personal, malevolent being that works under Satan and is driven out by Jesus
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- a lesser divine being, a deity or god of the kind the Greeks recognized
- daimonionδαιμόνιονan evil spirit: a real, personal, malevolent being that works under Satan and is driven out by Jesus
devious1 word
devise5 words
- ḥashavחָשַׁבto devise: to plan or scheme toward an end, good or harmful
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- to think something over: to consider, weigh, and form a judgment in the mind
- to reckon: to count something toward an account and treat it as having that value
- to design: to invent and work out skilled craft or artistic plans
- ya'atsיָעַץto work out a course of action by counsel: to advise, to consult together, or to settle on a plan
- ḥareshחָרֵשׁto cut into a hard surface: to engrave, to plow, or to shape raw material, and from there to work out a scheme in the mind
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- to be silent: to hold one's peace, say nothing, or be unresponsive like a deaf person
- zamamזָמַםto settle the mind on a course of action and mean to carry it out: to purpose, resolve, deliberately intend.
- badaבָּדָאto devisenot studied yet
- ḥashavחָשַׁבto devise: to plan or scheme toward an end, good or harmful
devote2 words
- tassōτάσσωto place a person or thing in an ordered position assigned by an authority: to appoint, station, arrange, or set in order.
- ḥaramחָרַםto hand a thing over to God for good, by destroying it or by giving it up forever, so it can never return to ordinary human use
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- having a mutilated or flattened nose, said of a physical defect that bars a priest from serving at the altar
devote oneself to3 words
- epakoloutheōἐπακολουθέωto follow closely after or upon something: to come along behind it, follow up on it, or attend it as its sequel
- proistēmiπροΐστημιto be in charge of something and look after it: to lead, to manage, to take the lead in
- proskartereōπροσκαρτερέωto hold on tenaciously: to keep oneself strongly and steadily fixed on someone or something over time, without letting go
devote yourself1 word
devoted3 words
- anathemaἀνάθεμαaccursed: a person or thing handed over to God for destruction and cut off forever from his people
- philostorgosφιλόστοργοςtenderly affectionate in the way family are: showing the warm, unforced love that runs between parents and children, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters
- euprosedros, euparedrosεὐπρόσεδρος, εὐπάρεδροςdevotednot studied yet
devoted thing1 word
- ḥeremחֵרֶםa thing placed under God's irrevocable claim, so that it is either destroyed or given to him permanently and can never be reclaimed for ordinary use
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- a net for catching fish or prey
- ḥeremחֵרֶםa thing placed under God's irrevocable claim, so that it is either destroyed or given to him permanently and can never be reclaimed for ordinary use
devour8 words
- akhalאָכַלto eat: to take something in and use it up, whether food into a body or anything into a force that destroys it
- phageinφαγεῖνto eat: to take in food, and by extension to consume or use something up.
- esthiōἐσθίωto consume, devour: of fire that eats up what it burns
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- to eat: to take in food
- katesthiōκατεσθίωto eat up completely: to devour, consume, or swallow down until nothing is left
- balaבָּלַעto swallow: to take something wholly in and make it disappear, from gulping food down to engulfing and destroying.
devout3 words
devoutly2 words
dew2 words
diadem4 words
- nezerנֵזֶרa mark of being set apart for God, worn on the head: the state of consecration itself, or the emblem that shows it (a Nazirite's unshorn hair, a priest's gold band, a king's crown).
- diadēmaδιάδημαa royal headband: the cloth band tied around a king's head as the badge of his sovereignty.
- mitsnephetמִצְנֶפֶתa turban: cloth wound around the head as the badge of the highest office, worn by Israel's high priest and, in one prophecy, by her ruler.
- tsephirahצְפִירָהdiadem/doomnot studied yet
dialect1 word
diamond1 word
- shamirשָׁמִירa thorny weed or brier: the wild, prickly scrub that overruns neglected ground
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- adamant: the hardest known stone, used for cutting and engraving and as an image of unbending hardness
- shamirשָׁמִירa thorny weed or brier: the wild, prickly scrub that overruns neglected ground
Diblaim1 word
Dibon2 words
Dibri1 word
dictates1 word
die7 words
- mutמוּתto die: for a living thing to lose its life and stop living.
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- to put to death, to kill: to be the cause of someone's death.
- apothnēskōἀποθνήσκωto die: to come to the end of life, whether of the body, in sin, or to an old way of living.
- koimaōκοιμάωto fall asleep; used for ordinary sleep and, as a gentle picture of death, for dying
- thnēskōθνῄσκωto be dead: to have died already, so that death is now an accomplished fact.
- teleutaōτελευτάωto die: to reach the end of one's life, come to one's end.
- mutמוּתto die: for a living thing to lose its life and stop living.
die to1 word
die with1 word
differ1 word
- diapherōδιαφέρωto differ from something else, to be unlike it
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- to carry something through or across a place, or to be carried along by an outside force
- to be worth more than something else, to surpass it in value or importance
- diapherōδιαφέρωto differ from something else, to be unlike it
different4 words
- heterosἕτεροςof a different kind: another that is not the same in nature, strange or foreign
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- another one: a further or second member of the same kind or group
- next, following: the next day in a sequence of days
- aḥerאַחֵרanother, other: a second or different one of the same kind, set apart from the one already in view
- shenaשְׁנָאto become or be other than before: to change, be altered, or be different in kind
- diaphorosδιάφοροςdifferentnot studied yet
- heterosἕτεροςof a different kind: another that is not the same in nature, strange or foreign
differently1 word
difficult2 words
difficulties1 word
difficultly2 words
dig8 words
- orussōὀρύσσωto dignot studied yet
- ḥatsavחָצַבto hew: to cut into hard rock by striking it, breaking off or hollowing out the stone
- ḥapharחָפַרto dig: to break open the ground to make a well, pit, or hole
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- to search out: to explore or scout a place to learn what it holds
- karahכָּרָהto dig out: to hollow a cavity by removing earth or rock, most often a well, a grave, or a pit
- ḥatarחָתַרto tunnel through a barrier: to bore a hole in the wall of a house, and so to force a way through whatever blocks passage
dig about1 word
dig deep1 word
dig through2 words
dig up1 word
digit1 word
dignified1 word