teen · fig, fig tree

What it means

teen (תְּאֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fig, fig tree”.

Fig tree; also its fruit, the fig.

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. The fig-bearing plant; sitting under one's own means living in peace.
2. The fruit of the fig tree, eaten fresh or pressed into cakes.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• fig tree ×19
• figs ×15
• fig trees ×4
• fig ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×12
• Hosea×2
• Joel×3
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 3:7

  And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths.

• Numbers 13:23

  And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a carrying pole between two men, and also some of the pomegranates and of the figs.

• Numbers 20:5

  And why have you brought us up from Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”

• Deuteronomy 8:8

  a land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees for oil and of honey;

• Judges 9:10

  Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come, you, reign over us.’

• Judges 9:11

  But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I give up my sweetness and my good fruit and go to sway over the trees?’

• 1 Kings 4:25

  And Judah and Israel lived securely, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

• 2 Kings 18:31

  Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: “Make peace with me and come out to me, and eat, each from his vine and each from his fig tree, and drink, each the water of his cistern,

• 2 Kings 20:7

  Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” They took it and put it on the boil, and he lived.

• Nehemiah 13:15

  In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in the heaps and loading them on the donkeys, and also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath; and I testified on the day they sold provisions.

• Psalms 105:33

  And he struck their vines and their fig trees, and broke the trees of their territory.

• Proverbs 27:18

  Whoever tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever guards his master will be honored.

• Song of Songs 2:13

  The fig tree has ripened its early figs, and the vines in blossom give fragrance. Arise, my companion, my beautiful one, and come away.”

• Isaiah 34:4

  And all the army of the heavens will dissolve, and the heavens will be rolled up like a book, and all their army will fade as a leaf fades from the vine, and as what fades from the fig tree.

• Isaiah 36:16

  Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: “Make peace with me and come out to me, and eat, each from his vine and each from his fig tree, and drink, each the water of his cistern,

• Isaiah 38:21

  Isaiah said, “Let them take a cake of figs and rub it on the boil, and he will live.”

• Jeremiah 5:17

  And they will eat up your harvest and your bread; they will eat up your sons and your daughters; they will eat up your flocks and your herds; they will eat up your vine and your fig tree; they will shatter with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

• Jeremiah 8:13

  I will gather them in completely, declares YHWH. There are no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf withers; and what I gave them will pass away from them.’”

• Jeremiah 24:1

  YHWH showed me, and look, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of YHWH, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 24:2

  One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first ripening; and the other basket very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.

• Jeremiah 24:3

  And YHWH said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.”

• Jeremiah 24:5

  “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

• Jeremiah 24:8

  And like the figs that are bad, which cannot be eaten for badness —for thus says YHWH— so will I give up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.

• Jeremiah 29:17

  thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Look, I am sending against them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I will make them like the repulsive figs that cannot be eaten for badness.

• Hosea 2:12

  And I will lay waste her vine and her fig tree, of which she said, “These are my wages for me, which my lovers have given me”; and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field will devour them.

• Hosea 9:10

  Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel; like the early fruit on the fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers; they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the shame, and they became detestable things like what they loved.

• Joel 1:7

  It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree splinters; it has stripped it bare and thrown it down; its branches have turned white.

• Joel 1:12

  The vine has dried up, and the fig tree languishes; pomegranate, palm too, and apple tree, all the trees of the field have dried up; for joy has dried up from among human beings.

• Joel 2:22

  Do not fear, livestock of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness have turned green; for the tree bears its fruit, fig tree and vine give their strength.

• Amos 4:9

  I struck you with blight and with mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the cutting locust devoured; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.

• Micah 4:4

  And they will sit, each under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one to make them afraid, for the mouth of YHWH Tsevaot has spoken.

• Nahum 3:12

  All your fortresses are fig trees with first-ripe fruit; if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

• Habakkuk 3:17

  Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, the work of the olive lies, and the fields do not produce food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

• Haggai 2:19

  Is the seed still in the barn? And even the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. From this day I will bless.”

• Zechariah 3:10

  On that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, you will invite each his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.”

And 4 more times.