avot · cord; thick foliage

What it means

avot (עֲבֹת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cord; thick foliage”.

Cord, braided rope. In Ezekiel 19:11 and 31:3, thick boughs, dense foliage.

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 cord braided of several strands, or bonds with which one ties.
2. The dense boughs of a tall tree, among which its crown is seen.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• ropes ×9
• cords ×6
• thick foliage ×4
• corded ×3
• cord ×1
• rope ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Judges×4
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×6
• Hosea×1

• Exodus 28:14

  and two chains of pure gold; twisted you shall make them, of corded work, and you shall fasten the corded chains to the settings.

• Exodus 28:22

  You shall make on the breastpiece twisted chains, of corded work, of pure gold.

• Exodus 28:24

  You shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece;

• Exodus 28:25

  and the other two ends of the two cords you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

• Exodus 39:15

  And they made on the breastpiece chains, twisted, a work of cord, of pure gold.

• Exodus 39:17

  And they put the two cords of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

• Exodus 39:18

  And the other two ends of the two cords they put on the two settings, and they put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its front.

• Judges 15:13

  And they said to him, “No, but we will surely bind you and give you into their hand, but we will certainly not put you to death.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the crag.

• Judges 15:14

  He came as far as Lehi, and the Philistines shouted in triumph to meet him. And the spirit of YHWH came powerfully upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned in fire, and his bonds melted from off his hands.

• Judges 16:11

  And he said to her, “If they bind me tightly with new ropes with which no work has been done, then I will become weak and be like any human being.”

• Judges 16:12

  So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the ambush was waiting in the room. But he snapped them from off his arms like a thread.

• Job 39:10

  Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with his rope, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

• Psalms 2:3

  “Let us tear apart their bonds and cast away from us their ropes.”

• Psalms 118:27

  El is YHWH, and he has given us light; bind the victim of the festival with cords up to the horns of the altar.

• Psalms 129:4

  YHWH is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

• Isaiah 5:18

  Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood, and as with ropes of a cart, sin;

• Ezekiel 3:25

  And you, son of man, look, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, and you will not go out among them.

• Ezekiel 4:8

  And look, I have put ropes on you, and you will not turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

• Ezekiel 19:11

  And she had strong rods for scepters of rulers; and its stature rose high up among the thick foliage, and it was seen in its height, with the multitude of its branches.

• 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 31:10

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘Because you rose high in stature, and it set its top among the thick foliage, and its heart was lifted up in its height,

• Ezekiel 31:14

  so that no trees by the waters will rise high in their stature, nor set their top among the thick foliage, nor stand in their height all who drink water; for all of them are given over to death, to the land below, in the midst of the sons of man, with those who go down to the pit.’

• Hosea 11:4

  With cords of humankind I drew them, with ropes of love; and I was to them like those who lift the yoke from their jaws; and I bent down to him and fed him.

And 1 more times.