raanan · green, leafy

What it means

raanan (רַעֲנָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “green, leafy”.

Full of leaves; also fresh, flourishing.

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. Full of foliage and life, like a tree.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• leafy ×11
• flourishing ×4
• green ×3
• fresh ×1
• like a luxuriant tree ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Deuteronomy 12:2

  You shall completely wipe out all the places where the nations that you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every leafy tree.

• 1 Kings 14:23

  They also built for themselves high places and standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

• 2 Kings 16:4

  He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every leafy tree.

• 2 Kings 17:10

  They set up for themselves standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

• 2 Chronicles 28:4

  He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

• Job 15:32

  Before his day it will be fulfilled, and his branch will not be green.

• Psalms 37:35

  I have seen a fearsome wicked man, spreading himself out like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

• Psalms 52:8

  But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of Elohim; I trust in the loyal love of Elohim forever and ever.

• Psalms 92:10

  But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil.

• Psalms 92:14

  They will still bear fruit in old age; they will be vigorous and green,

• Song of Songs 1:16

  Look, you are beautiful, my beloved, also pleasant; also our bed is leafy.

• Isaiah 57:5

  who inflame yourselves among the terebinths, under every leafy tree, who slaughter the children in the streambeds, under the clefts of the rocks?

• Jeremiah 2:20

  For long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds, and you said, ‘I will not serve!’ For on every high hill and under every leafy tree you lay down, a prostitute.

• Jeremiah 3:6

  And YHWH said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what apostate Israel has done? She went up on every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and prostituted herself there.

• Jeremiah 3:13

  Only know your iniquity, that against YHWH your Elohim you have transgressed, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every leafy tree, and my voice you have not heeded, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 11:16

  A flourishing olive tree, beautiful in fruit and in form, YHWH called your name; with the noise of a great roar he has set fire to it, and its branches are broken.

• Jeremiah 17:2

  as their children remember their altars and their Asherahs beside the flourishing tree, on the high hills.

• Jeremiah 17:8

  And he will be like a tree planted by the waters, and by the stream it sends out its roots; and it will not see when heat comes, and its leaf will be flourishing; and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, nor cease from bearing fruit.

• 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.

• Hosea 14:8

  Ephraim: “What have I to do any longer with idols?” I answer and watch over him; I am like a cypress that is green; from me your fruit is found.