לִבְנֶה
libneh · H3839 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
A word for 2 things
- PoplarWild Trees and Shrubs10 verses
- StyraxWild Trees and Shrubs1 verse
Meanings
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white poplar
A tall tree, reaching 20 m; growing along riverbanks; Populus alba
ExamplesGenesis 30:37 Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white that was in the rods.
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A shrub of 3 to 6 meters with oval leaves, green above and cottony white below, and white flowers like orange blossoms, giving shade for sacrifices (Styrax tree (Styrax officinalis))
ExamplesHosea 4:13 They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains And burn incense on the hills, Under oak, poplar, and terebinth, Because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לַחfresh 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַקֵּלstaff, rod, branch 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
- עָרָב ʻârâb · H6155 · plain, steppe, desert
- Another Hebrew tree name sometimes identified as a species of poplar or willow (Populus euphratica), distinct from לִבְנֶה but semantically overlapping in denoting a riparian tree species
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Trees001002007002
- This word denotes the poplar (or storax) tree, so it belongs among tree terms.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3839. libneh לִבְנֶה noun [masculine] poplar (apparently = Arabic ; Ethiopic styrax…
לִבְנֶה noun [masculine] poplar (apparently = Arabic ; Ethiopic styrax officinalis; but ᵐ5 λεύκη, compare ᵑ6 and LöwNo.107); — Gen 30:37 ל ׳מַקַּל וְעַרְמוֺן וְלוּז לַח as marking places of idolatrous incense-burning וְּאֵלָה וְלִבְנֶה אַלּוֺן תַּחַת Hos 4:13. **named from exuding milky (white) gum De Ges 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
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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