Aramaic word · H4

אֵב

ve'inbeh

fruit

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

fruit, fresh, young, greening

Aramaic of ev (אֵב "greenery" H0003)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Daniel · 3

  1. Daniel 4:12 וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ and fruit its

    Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.

  2. Daniel 4:14 אִנְבֵּ֑הּ fruit its

    He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.

    Here: 'Its fruit': in 4:12 this fruit was 'food for all'. Scattering it ends the tree's role as provider. The related Hebrew word means fresh growth or shoots, which is why YLT has 'budding'.

  3. Daniel 4:21 וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ and fruit its

    whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested—

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