avot · leafy

What it means

avot (עָבֹת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “leafy”.

Thick with branches and leaves intertwined.

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. With many branches and leaves.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• leafy ×2
• dense ×1
• thick ×1

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• 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.

• Nehemiah 8:15

  and that they should make it heard and pass a proclamation through all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, and branches of oil tree, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

• Ezekiel 6:13

  And you will know that I am YHWH, when their slain are among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every leafy tree, and under every dense oak, the place where they gave a pleasing aroma to all their idols.

• Ezekiel 20:28

  When I brought them into the land that I had raised my hand to give it to them, they saw every high hill and every thick tree, and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, and there they set their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their libations.