אֵב
ʼêb · H3 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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blossom, flower
Part of a plant or tree that is typically surrounded by brightly colored petals and will eventually develop into a fruit
ExamplesSong of Solomon 6:11 “I went down to the orchard of nut trees To see the plants of the valley, To see whether the vine had grown Or the pomegranates had bloomed.
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blossom
State in which a plant or tree has developed blossoms
ExamplesJob 8:12 “While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נַחַלstream, valley, wadi 1
- הוּhis 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נּוּhe 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 3
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
- פַּג pag · H6291 · early fig
- אֵב denotes greenness or fresh fruit literally; פַּג expresses greenness in a figurative sense.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Vegetation001002007
- אֵב denotes fresh plant growth, as when Job's speech pictures a plant still green and uncut before it withers (Job 8:12).
- Stage002001001060
- The word marks the tender early stage of a plant, illustrated by the same picture of something green and not yet cut down before it withers away (Job 8:12).
- Fruits001003001003004
- The term can denote young or budding produce, as in Song of Solomon's account of going down to the orchard to see whether the vine had bloomed and the pomegranates were in flower (Song of Solomon 6:11).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3. eb [אֵב] noun [masculine] freshness, fresh green (LagBN 207 Infinitive ibb; thence…
[אֵב] noun [masculine] freshness, fresh green (LagBN 207 Infinitive ibb; thence concrete, compare Arabic ; above stem & meaning better than √ אנב (spring) compare Assyrian inbu, fruit, Aramaic אִנְבֵּהּ (q. v.) DlHA 65, Prov 114) בְאִבּוֺ עֹדֶנּוּ while yet in its freshness (i.e. אָחוּ, reed) Job 8:12; concrete, plural green shoots הַנַּחַל בְּאִבֵּי Son 6:11 (|| הָֽרִמֹּנִים׃ הֵנֵצוּ הַגֶּפֶן הֲפָֽרְחָה.
[אֵב K§ 55, 5 a) 2] noun masculine fruit (Biblical Hebrew; √ אבב); — suffix 3 masculine singular אִנְבֵהּ (K§ 11, 4 b) Dan 4:9; Dan 4:11; Dan 4:18.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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