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# אֲבִיּוֹנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H35

**caper-berry** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

caper-berry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/35/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִיּוֹנָה: n.f. caper-berry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/35/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ec 12:5 (v. GFMJBL 1891, 55 ff.; so 𝔊 𝔙, Mish. אביונות, cf. NHWB; v. also 𝔖 i.e. capparis spinosa, cf. RiHWB; so Thes, Ew De, etc.; but Wetzst in De (Germ. ed. 1875) proposes אֶבְיוֹנָה (as fem. of אביון) the poor soul in sense = נִשְׁמָתוֹ הָאֶבְיוֹנָה cf. Symm 𝔖, where double translation).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: caper-berry (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 12:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.5/#tree)

גַּ֣ם מִגָּבֹ֤הַּ יִרָ֙אוּ֙ וְחַתְחַתִּ֣ים בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְיָנֵ֤אץ הַשָּׁקֵד֙ וְיִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל הֶֽחָגָ֔ב וְתָפֵ֖ר הָֽאֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ הָאָדָם֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית עוֹלָמ֔וֹ וְסָבְב֥וּ בָשּׁ֖וּקהַסֹּפְדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* also from a.high.\[place\] people.will.be.afraid and terrors \[are\].in the way and it.will.bloom the.almond tree and it.will.drag.itself.along the grasshopper and it.will.fail the caper-berry (dm) \[is\].going (the) humankind to the.house its.perpetuity his and they.will.go.about in the street the mourners

*JPS 1917:* Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/35.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/35/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).