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Genesis 37:25

וַ יֵּשְׁבוּ לֶ אֶכָל לֶחֶם וַ יִּשְׂאוּ עֵינֵיהֶם וַ יִּרְאוּ וְ הִנֵּה אֹרְחַת יִשְׁמְעֵאלִים בָּאָה מִ גִּלְעָד וּ גְמַלֵּיהֶם נֹשְׂאִים נְכֹאת וּ צְרִי וָ לֹט הֹולְכִים לְ הֹורִיד מִצְרָיְמָה
And they are sitting to eat bread, and they are lifting up their eyes, and are seeing, and behold, a traveling-company of El-Hears-ites, she-who-comes from Witness-Heap, and their camels are those-who-lift-up a smitten-one,1173 and a lumped-one,1174 and a wrapped-one,1175 going to take them down to Dual-Siege.
1174

Honey = Lumped/Sticky Mass Pressed together

Strong’s #1706, debash. A lumped mass. This is the word for honey. From the root dabash (unused). Gesenius writes, “to work up a mass”. Feurst writes, “to be slimed together, put together by grease, as thing which is slimy, sticky, fat…generally to be pressed together (into a lump or mass). See dabbashet (#1707), camel hump.