חֲבַצֶּלֶת
chăbatstseleth · H2261 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
A word for 2 things
Meanings
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narcissus
Bright golden yellow flower, growing with several flowers on one stem; Narcissus tazetta; symbol of beauty
ExamplesSong of Solomon 2:1 “I am the rose of Sharon, The lily of the valleys.”
Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the desert will rejoice, And the desert will shout for joy and blossom; Like the crocus
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁרוֹןLasharon 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲנִיI 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שׁוּשַׁן shûwshan · H7799 · lily, lilies, shoshannim
- שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (lily) is another flower term used in poetic and ornamental contexts in Song of Songs and elsewhere; both חֲבַצֶּלֶת and שׁוֹשַׁנָּה refer to beautiful flowers in the same literary register, though the precise botanical identification of each remains debated. They appear in similar semantic and stylistic contexts as ornamental flower names.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Plants001002007001
- חֲבַצֶּלֶת denotes a flowering plant, likely the crocus, celebrated in the Song of Songs and in Isaiah's vision of the blossoming wilderness.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2261. chabatstseleth חֲבַצֶּלֶת noun feminine meadow-saffron or crocus (colchicum…
חֲבַצֶּלֶת noun feminine meadow-saffron or crocus (colchicum autumnale, Linn.) (Syriac , see GESComm. Isa 35:1 Löwp. 174, No. 128; Assyrian —abaƒillatu VR32, 62 is a marsh-plant, reed; compare ZimBP 59 DlHA 34; Prov 82; also Chel.c. and critical note.); — הָעֲמָקִים שׁוֺשַׁנַּת ׳ח הַשָּׁרוֺן Son 2:1 (figurative of Shulamite), כַּחֲבַצָּֽלֶת׃ וְתִפְרַח עֲרָבָה וְתָגֵל Isa 35:1 (narcissus CheIsa 35:1 compare ConderPEF, 1878, 46 TristrNHB 476 and others)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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