בֹּטֶן
bôṭen · H992 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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pistachio nuts
Nuts with a hard, red, heart-shaped shell of about 2 cm long, with an oily green kernel inside; comes from a small tree with many branches that lose their leaves in winter, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family; regarded as valuable
ExamplesGenesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a gift, a little balsam and a little honey, labdanum resin and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- אֱגוֹז ʼĕgôwz · H93 · walnut
- Both rare Hebrew words (each occurring once) denoting edible nuts; specific botanical referents uncertain but functionally synonymous in recorded usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fruits001003001003004
- The word denotes the pistachio nut, one of the choice products of the land Jacob sends as a gift in Genesis 43:11, fitting this domain's category for edible plant produce.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H992. botnim בָּטְנִים noun [masculine] plural pistachio, an oval nut (compare Assyrian…
בָּטְנִים noun [masculine] plural pistachio, an oval nut (compare Assyrian bu‰nu COTGloss & SchrMBAK 1881, 419, Aramaic בּוּטְנָא, , Arabic ; on Punic Βουτνούμ BlauZMG 1873, 527) = pistacia terebinthus RobBR i. 208, ii. 222, PostPEF Oct. 1888, 218, No. 214 f; Tr. Vict. Inst. xxii. 271 etc. pist. vera LöwNo. 44); Gen 43:11 one of the articles carried from Canaan to Egypt by sons of Jacob as present to Joseph; still a delicacy in Egypt and Syria, compare Wetzst in Löwp.420.
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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