יוֹנֶקֶת
yôwneqeth · H3127 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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shoot
Young branch growing from the stump or stem of a tree or plant
ExamplesJob 8:16 “He flourishes before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden.
Job 14:7 “For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.
Job 15:30 “He will not escape from darkness; The flame will dry up his shoot, And he will go away by the breath of His mouth.
How it’s used In 4 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
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 5
- הּher 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
- חָדַלto cease, to stop 1
- יָצָאto go out 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָבֵשׁto dry up 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
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
- נֵצֶר nêtser · H5342 · sprout, shoot, branch
- נֵצֶר refers to a branch or shoot, often with connotations of newness or growth, and overlaps semantically with יוֹנֶקֶת as both denote young, tender branches, though נֵצֶר is more commonly used in prophetic/messianic contexts.
In the other Testament 2 words
- κλάδος kládos · G2798 · branch (of a tree or woody shrub)
- κλάδος is the standard Greek term for a branch or twig and serves as the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew יוֹנֶקֶת when rendering the concept of a young branch or tender twig in botanical contexts.
- κλῆμα klēma · G2814 · branch (principally of grapevines)
- κλῆμα denotes a branch or shoot, particularly of a vine, and can serve as a translation equivalent for יוֹנֶקֶת when the context involves a young, tender shoot or branch.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Trees001002007002
- יוֹנֶקֶת denotes a young, tender branch or twig put forth by a plant, as in the image of a felled tree sprouting new shoots (Job 14:7) or a vine's spreading shoots (Psalm 80:11).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3127. yoneqeth [יוֺנֶ֫קֶת] noun feminine young shoot, twig (= foregoing) — יוֺנַקְתּוֺ…
[יוֺנֶ֫קֶת] noun feminine young shoot, twig (= foregoing) — יוֺנַקְתּוֺ Job 8:16 Job 8:2t.; יוֺנְקוֺתָיו Hos 14:7; יֹנְקוֺתָיו Eze 17:22; יוֺנְקוֺתֶיהָ Psa 80:12; — shoot, twig, of tree Job 14:7; cf wicked under figure of tree Job 8:16; Job 15:30; Israel under figure of olive-tree Hos 14:7, of cedar Eze 17:22, of vine Psa 80:12.
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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