anaf · branch

What it means

anaf (עָנָף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “branch”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A branch with leaves and fruit, which gives shade and holds up the birds.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• branches ×4
• boughs ×2
• branch ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Malachi×1

• Leviticus 23:40

  And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim seven days.

• Psalms 80:10

  The mountains were covered with its shade, and with its boughs the cedars of El.

• Ezekiel 17:8

  In a good field, beside many waters, it was planted, to produce branches and to bear fruit, to become a glorious vine.’

• Ezekiel 17:23

  On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it, and it will bear branches and produce fruit, and become a noble cedar; and under it will dwell every bird of every wing; in the shade of its branches they will dwell.

• Ezekiel 31:3

  Look, Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, beautiful of branches, and a thicket giving shade, and tall of stature, and among the thick foliage was its top.

• Ezekiel 36:8

  But you, mountains of Israel, will give your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel, for they are near to coming.

• Malachi 4:1

  For look, the day is coming, burning like the oven; and all the insolent and all who do wickedness will be stubble; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze, says YHWH Tsevaot, so that it will not leave them root or branch.