Devorah דְּבוֹרָה

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Devorah (Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה, Strong's H1682) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “bee”. It occurs 4 times in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

bee

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	bees (3), bee (1)
BSB	bees (2), swarm of bees (1), like bees (1)

Every verse with Devorah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy 1:44
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.

Judges 14:8
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.

Psalm 118:12
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Isaiah 7:18
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).