standard
de.gel denotes a banner or identifying marker connected with Israelite camps, and once a banner set over a person.
The term most often identifies the banner or marker by which an Israelite camp is arranged, encamped, and set out; the supplied passages connect it with the camps of Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and Dan. A single poetic occurrence places such a banner over the speaker in a clause identified with love.
Senses in use
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Camp banner or identifying marker · dominant
In Numbers 2:2, the singular construct form occurs in the command for each Israelite to camp by it, alongside the signs of their fathers' houses. Numbers 10:14 and Numbers 10:25 place the same construct form with the camps of Judah and Dan as those camps set out according to their armies; in Numbers 2:17 and Numbers 2:34, plural construct forms accompany the camps' ordered departure and encampment.
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Banner set over the speaker · rare
In Song of Songs 2:4, the singular construct form occurs in the clause in which he sets up a banner over the speaker; the APB renders the concluding identification as "love."
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the Numbers passages, the APB regularly presents the relevant camp marker as "standard" or "standards." In Song of Songs 2:4 it uses "banner"; These renderings indicate the clauses' presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.