Word

עֲנַף

ʻănaph · H6056 · Aramaic · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

bough, branch

Part of a tree which grows out from the trunk

Examples
Daniel 4:12 ‘Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it, And the birds of the sky lived in its branches, And all living creatures fed from it.
Daniel 4:14 ‘He shouted out and spoke as follows: “Chop down the tree and cut off its branches, Shake off its foliage and scatter its fruit; Let the animals flee from under it And the birds from its branches.
Daniel 4:21 and whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which the animals of the field lived and in whose branches the birds of the sky settled—

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

4 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּhis 4

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קְצַץcut off 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 4
מִןfrom 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

זְמוֹרָה zᵉmôwrâh · H2156 · branch of vine: זְמוֹרָה refers to a branch or twig, especially of a vine, and serves as a near synonym for עֲנַף in describing parts of plants.

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 of a tree, commonly used in the LXX to translate Hebrew branch terminology and directly equivalent in sense to עֲנַף as a bough or branch.
κλῆμα klēma · G2814 · branch (principally of grapevines): κλῆμα refers specifically to a branch or shoot (especially of a vine), and serves as a translation equivalent for Hebrew branch terms in horticultural contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Trees001002007002: Daniel 4:12 recounts Nebuchadnezzar's dream, “its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it, And the birds of the sky lived in its branches, And all living creatures fed from it.”

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָנָף ʻânâph · H6057 · bough, branch, root and branch · 7×עֲנַףʻănaph · H6056עָנֵף ʻânêph · H6058 · full of branches · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6056. anaph [עֲנַף] noun [masculine] bough (see Biblical Hebrew ענף); — plural suffix…

H6056. anaph
[עֲנַף] noun [masculine] bough (see Biblical Hebrew ענף); — plural suffix עַנְפ֫וֺהִי Dan 4:9; Dan 4:11 (twice in verse); Dan 4:18.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Trees4 occurrences

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