דְרוֹר Sparrow (dror)
Every verse in which this word stands — 2 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
The dror — nesting by the altars in Tehillim 84, wandering in Mishlei's proverb. Sparrow or swallow is discussed, and the status travels with the identification: the bird Chullin 62a fits to the metzora's purification is the white senunit, and that is the very bird R. Eliezer forbids there and the Sages permit. The same letters write dror, liberty — proclaimed in the Yovel — under a different entry, not counted here.
גַּם־צִפּוֹר מָצְאָה בַיִת וּדְרוֹר קֵן לָהּ אֲשֶׁר־שָׁתָה אֶפְרֹחֶיהָ אֶֽת־מִזְבְּחוֹתֶיךָ יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת מַלְכִּי וֵאלֹהָֽי
Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, Where she may lay her young; Thine altars, O LORD of hosts, My King, and my God—
כַּצִּפּוֹר לָנוּד כַּדְּרוֹר לָעוּף כֵּן קִֽלְלַת חִנָּם לא תָבֹֽא
As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, So the curse that is causeless shall come home. .
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Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for sparrow?
Sparrow in Hebrew is דרור, with a gematria of 410 in the standard method.
How many times is the sparrow mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 2 times in the Tanakh, first at Psalms 84:4.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters דרור stand 7 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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