דְּיוֹ
ink
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1773 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
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דיו — transliterated dᵉyôw — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “ink.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Jeremiah. Its lone occurrence is Jeremiah 36:18. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1773 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Ink 1×
- American Standard Version: Ink 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ink 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1773 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1773 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1773 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- ink
Word origin
דְּיוֹ n.m. ink Je 36:18
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דַּיּוּ
- , v. דַּיְּיתָא
דְּיוֹ I
- fluid, writing ink. Ab. IV, 20. Sabb. 133ᵇ. Y. Sot. II, 18ᵃ top, v. אֶרֶר; a. fr.—Pl. דְּיוֹאוֹת, דָּיוֹת. Midr. Sam. ch. XXVII, end (דיוא׳); Gen. R. s. 58; Yalk. ib. 102; Yalk. Kings 170 כמה ד׳ וכ׳ how many ink drops have been spilt … to write ‘the sons of Heth’ ten times!
דִּיוֹ II
- (δι-) two, double, a Greek prefix, sometimes used as a separate word (δύο) for etymological purposes, and sometimes separated from its junction. Erub. 18ᵃ (explain. דיומדין, v. דְּיוֹמַד) דיו עמודין two columns; ib. (expl. דיופרא, v. דִּיפְרָא) העושה ד׳ פירות bearing fruits twice a year.—ד׳ זוגי, ד׳ פרצוף &c., v. דיוז׳, דיופ׳ &c.
דיו־
- a Greek prefix.
- 1. = δι-, v. preced.
- 2. = δια-.
דַּיְּיתָא
- f. ch. = h. דַּיָּה. Targ. Lev. XI, 14. Targ. Y. ib. 19 (v. דַּיָּה). Targ. Deut. XIV, 13 (Targ. Y. V ib., v. אִיבּוּ). Targ. Y. ib. 18.—Keth. 50ᵃ דיו חיוורתא Ar. (ed. דַּיָּה). B. Mets. 24ᵇ דיו (masc.).—Y. Shek. VII, 50ᶜ bot.; Y. Ab. Zar. II, 41ᵈ bot.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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