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# אֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3

**freshness** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

freshness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵב: freshness, fresh green [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] freshness, fresh green (LagBN207 Inf. ibb; thence concr., cf. Arabic أَبٌّ herbage, pasture; above stem & meaning better than √אנב (spring) cf. Aramaic אִנְבֵּהּ (q.v.) DlHA65, Pr114) עֿדֶנּוּ בְאִבּוֹ while yet in its freshness (i.e. אָחוּ, reed) Jb 8:12; concr., pl. green shoots בְּאִבֵּי הַנַּחַל Ct 6:11 (‖ הֲפָֽרְחָה הַגֶּפֶן הֵנֵצוּ הָֽרִמֹּנִים׃).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: greenness (1); the green shoots (1).

## In the verses

[Job 8:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.12/#tree)

עֹדֶ֣נּוּ בְ֭אִבּוֹ לֹ֣א יִקָּטֵ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֖י כָל־חָצִ֣יר יִיבָֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* still it \[is\].in greenness its not it.is.plucked.off and before any herbage it.is.dried.up

*JPS 1917:* Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

[Song of Songs 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.11/#tree)

אֶל־גִּנַּ֤ת אֱגוֹז֙ יָרַ֔דְתִּי לִרְא֖וֹת בְּאִבֵּ֣י הַנָּ֑חַל לִרְאוֹת֙ הֲפָֽרְחָ֣ה הַגֶּ֔פֶן הֵנֵ֖צוּ הָרִמֹּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* to a.garden of.nut\[s\] I.went.down to look on the.green.shoots of the.wadi to see had it.budded? the vine had.they.bloomed? the pomegranates

*JPS 1917:* I went down into the garden of nuts, to look at the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/3/): 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).