דְּלִיdᵉlîy

bucket (Isaiah 40:15; Numbers 24:7)

Pronunciation: del-ee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1805

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 24:7 Water will flow from their buckets; their offspring have all they need. Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted.
  • Isaiah 40:15 No, for all the nations of the world are but a drop in the bucket. They are nothing more than dust on the scales. He picks up the whole earth as though it were a grain of sand.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).