אֲבִיּוֹנָה
ʼăbîyôwnâh · H35 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
Meanings
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caper berry
A plant with heavy, drooping branches (Capparis Spinosa) whose large white flowers open for only one night, with buds pickled as a condiment and the fruit believed to stimulate sexual desire
ExamplesEcclesiastes 12:5 Furthermore, people are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while the mourners move around in the street.
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּרַרto break, to annul 1
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Plants001002007001
- אֲבִיּוֹנָה names the caper-berry, the fruit of a plant whose failure to stimulate appetite is used as a sign of old age.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H35. abiyyonah אֲבִיּוֺנָה noun feminine caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ecc 12:5…
אֲבִיּוֺנָה noun feminine caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ecc 12:5 (see GFMJBL 1891, 55 ff.; so ᵑ9 ᵐ5, Mishna אביונות, compare NHWB; see also ᵑ6; i.e. capparis spinosa, compare RiHWB; so Thes, Ew De, etc.; but Wetzst in De (German ed. 1875) proposes אֶבְיוֺנָה (as feminine of אביון) the poor soul in sense = הָאֶבְיוֺנָה נִשְׁמָתוֺ compare Symm ᵑ6, where double translation).
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.
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