Bible Names

Deborah: meaning of the name

Deborah means “word; thing; a bee.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Deborah in Hebrew and Greek

דְּבּוֹרָה H1683

Dᵉbôwrâh (deb-o-raw') — Deborah, the name of two Hebrewesses

or (shortened) דְּבֹרָה; the same as H1682 (דְּבוֹרָה);

People named Deborah in the Bible

Deborah in Scripture

“Deborah” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 35:8

    But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth–el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon–bachuth.

  • Judges 4:4

    And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

  • Judges 4:5

    And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth–el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

  • Judges 4:9

    And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

  • Judges 4:10

    And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

  • Judges 4:14

    And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the Lord gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

  • Judges 5:1

    Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

  • Judges 5:7

    The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.