Senses
1. pestilence, plague — Deadly epidemic disease, typically sent by God as divine judgment or threatened as covenant punishment; uniformly rendered across all six witness languages (eng pestilence/plague, spa peste/pestilencia, hin महामारी, arb وَبَاء, kor 역병/전염병, swa tauni) with no cross-linguistic evidence of semantic differentiation — all 13 clusters differ only by prefixed prepositions (bet, lamed, min), conjunction (waw), article, or pronominal suffix, not by meaning. 49×
AR["الوَبَاءُ","وَ-بِ-الْوَبَاءِ","وَباءً","وَبَأً","وَبَاءً","وَبَاءٌ","وَبِالْوَبَاءِ"]·ben["-মহামারী","আর-মহামারীতে","এবং-মহামারিতে","এবং-মহামারীতে","ও-মহামারীতে","মহামারী"]·DE["Pest","pestilence","plague","redete","und-in-Wort"]·EN["and-by-pestilence","and-by-the-pestilence","and-with-the-pestilence","pestilence","plague","the-pestilence"]·FR["et-dans-peste","il-a-parlé","parole","pestilence","plague"]·heb["דֶּבֶר","דבר","ו-ב-דבר","ו-ב-ה-דבר"]·HI["और-महामारी-से","और-में-महामारी","और-से-महामारी","महामारी"]·ID["dan-dengan-penyakit-sampar","dan-oleh-penyakit-sampar","penyakit-sampar","sampar","wabah","wabah,"]·IT["e-in-parola","parola","pestilence","pestilenza","piaga"]·jav["lan-déning-pageblug","lan-kaliyan-pageblug","lan-kanthi-pageblug","pageblug","pagebluk"]·KO["그리고-에-역병","그리고-에-역병에","그리고-역병-으로","그리고-역병으로","그리고-전염병에","그리고-전염병으로","역병","역병과","역병을","역병이","염병을","염병이","전염병-을","전염병을"]·PT["e-com-pestilência","e-pela-peste","e-pela-pestilência","peste"]·RU["и-мором","и-от-мора","и-от-моровой-язвы","мор","мору","язву"]·ES["la-pestilencia","peste","pestilencia","y-a-pestilencia","y-con-la-peste","y-por-la-peste","y-por-la-pestilencia"]·SW["ikiwa","na-kwa-tauni","tauni"]·TR["kırgın","salgn","salgın","ve-de-veba","ve-salgınla","ve-vebayla","ve-vebayla-o","veba"]·urd["اور-سے-وبا","اور-وبا-سے","وبا"]
Exod 5:3, Exod 9:3, Exod 9:15, Lev 26:25, Num 14:12, Deut 28:21, 2 Sam 24:13, 2 Sam 24:15, 1 Kgs 8:37, 1 Chr 21:12, 1 Chr 21:14, 2 Chr 6:28 (+37 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
דֶּ֫בֶר49 n.m. pestilence (cf. Arabic دَبْرٌ, إِدْبَارٌ, departure, death)—Ex 9:3 +; דָּ֑בֶר Hb 3:5; sf. דְּבָרֶיךָ Ho 13:14;— 1. plague, pestilence, in general Ex 5:3; 9:15 Nu 14:12 (J) Lv 26:25 (H) Dt 28:21, 2 S 24:13, 15 (+ v 15 a 𝔊 We Dr) = 1 Ch 21:12, 14, 1 K 8:37 = 2 Ch 6:28, 2 Ch 7:13; 20:9 ψ 91:3, 6 Je 14:12 + 16 times Je, Ez 5:12 + 11 times Ez, Ho 13:14 Am 4:10 Hb 3:5. Read וּבַדָּ֑בֶר,…