The Definition of the word Deborah

Deborah

A bee. (1.) Rebekah's nurse. She accompanied her mistress when she left her father's house in Padan-aram to become the wife of "Isaac (Gen. 24:59). Many years afterwards she died at Bethel," "and was buried under the "oak of weeping", Allon-bachuth (35:8)." "(2.) A prophetess, "wife" (woman?) of Lapidoth. Jabin, the king "of Hazor, had for twenty years held Israel in degrading" subjection. The spirit of patriotism seemed crushed out of the nation. In this emergency Deborah roused the people from their "lethargy. Her fame spread far and wide. She became a "mother in" "Israel" (Judg. 4:6, 14; 5:7), and "the children of Israel came" "up to her for judgment" as she sat in her tent under the palm" "tree "between Ramah and Bethel." Preparations were everywhere" made by her direction for the great effort to throw off the yoke of bondage. She summoned Barak from Kadesh to take the command "of 10,000 men of Zebulun and Naphtali, and lead them to Mount" Tabor on the plain of Esdraelon at its north-east end. With his "aid she organized this army. She gave the signal for attack, and" "the Hebrew host rushed down impetuously upon the army of Jabin," "which was commanded by Sisera, and gained a great and decisive" victory. The Canaanitish army almost wholly perished. That was a great and ever-memorable day in Israel. In Judg. 5 is given the "grand triumphal ode, the "song of Deborah," which she wrote in" grateful commemoration of that great deliverance. (See "[150]LAPIDOTH, [151]JABIN [2].)"