דָּלִיּוֹת
branch
‘branch’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1808 appears — 8 distinct verses across 2 books. 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
Ezekiel 7 verses
- Ezekiel 17:6 דָּלִיּוֹתָי/ו֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
- Ezekiel 17:7 וְ/דָֽלִיּוֹתָי/ו֙ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
- Ezekiel 17:23 דָּלִיּוֹתָ֖י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches of it shall they dwell.
- Ezekiel 19:11 דָּלִיֹּתָֽי/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
- Ezekiel 31:7 דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
- Ezekiel 31:9 דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
- Ezekiel 31:12 דָלִיּוֹתָ֗י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
דליה — transliterated dâlîyâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “branch.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ezekiel. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Jeremiah 11:16, it then recurs through the corpus. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. 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 H1808 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
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 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Branches 8×
- American Standard Version: Branches 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Branches 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Branches 6×, Turned 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1808 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1808 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1808 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1808 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- branch, bough
- of Israel (figuratively) (used with olive tree, vine, cedar tree)
Word origin
[ דָּלִיּוֹת ] pl. of [ דָּלִית ] n.f. branch, bough
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דלה (dâlâh) (H1802) — to draw.
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.
דְּלִיָּה
- (דָּלָה) drawing water. Ex. R. s. 1 ד׳ אחת דלה one draft (bucketful) he drew.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H1808 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 31:7 | 2 |
| דָלִיּוֹתָ֗י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 31:12 | 1 |
| דָּלִיֹּתָֽי/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 19:11 | 1 |
| דָּלִיּוֹתָ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 17:23 | 1 |
| דָּלִיּוֹתָֽי/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 11:16 | 1 |
| דָּלִיּוֹתָי/ו֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 17:6 | 1 |
| וְ/דָֽלִיּוֹתָי/ו֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 17:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1808, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
