אֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3

freshness — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

freshness tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵב: freshness, fresh green tree →

The whole BDB entry

n. [m.] freshness, fresh green (LagBN207 Inf. ibb; thence concr., cf. Arabic أَبٌّ herbage, pasture; above stem & meaning better than √אנב (spring) cf. Aramaic אִנְבֵּהּ (q.v.) DlHA65, Pr114) עֿדֶנּוּ בְאִבּוֹ while yet in its freshness (i.e. אָחוּ, reed) Jb 8:12; concr., pl. green shoots בְּאִבֵּי הַנַּחַל Ct 6:11 (‖ הֲפָֽרְחָה הַגֶּפֶן הֵנֵצוּ הָֽרִמֹּנִים׃).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: greenness (1); the green shoots (1).

In the verses

Job 8:12 · tree →

עֹדֶ֣נּוּ בְ֭אִבּוֹ לֹ֣א יִקָּטֵ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֖י כָל־חָצִ֣יר יִיבָֽשׁ׃

Word for word: still it [is].in greenness its not it.is.plucked.off and before any herbage it.is.dried.up

JPS 1917: Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Song of Songs 6:11 · tree →

אֶל־גִּנַּ֤ת אֱגוֹז֙ יָרַ֔דְתִּי לִרְא֖וֹת בְּאִבֵּ֣י הַנָּ֑חַל לִרְאוֹת֙ הֲפָֽרְחָ֣ה הַגֶּ֔פֶן הֵנֵ֖צוּ הָרִמֹּנִֽים׃

Word for word: to a.garden of.nut[s] I.went.down to look on the.green.shoots of the.wadi to see had it.budded? the vine had.they.bloomed? the pomegranates

JPS 1917: I went down into the garden of nuts, to look at the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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