אֵב
ev · greenness, bud
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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ev (אֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “greenness, bud”.
Greenness, a tender shoot: a plant while it is fresh and green.
How to say it
ev
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
- The fresh, tender growth of plants as they sprout.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- green shoots ×1
- greenness ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 8:12
While it is still in its greenness, not cut down, it dries up before any grass.
- Song of Songs 6:11
To the garden of walnut trees I went down to see the green shoots of the valley, to see whether the vine had blossomed, whether the pomegranates had budded.