Strong’s H5317 · Hebrew
נֹפֶת
nôpheth · no'-feth
Origin from נוּף (H5130) in the sense of shaking to pieces;
Meaning a dripping i.e. of honey (from the comb)
In the King James Version honeycomb.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Psalms 19:10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 24:13My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
- Proverbs 27:7The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
- Song of Songs 4:11Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.