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# בָּטְנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H992

**pistachio** — 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

pistachio [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/992/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּטְנִים: pl. pistachio [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/992/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. pistachio, an oval nut (cf. Assyrian buṭnu COTGloss & Schr mbak 1881, 419, Aramaic בּוּטְנָא, ܒܶܛܡܬܳܐ, Arabic بُطْمٌ; on Punic βουτνούμ Blau ZMG 1873, 527) = pistacia terebinthus RobBR i. 208, ii. 222, PostPEF Oct. 1888, 218, No. 214 f.; Tr. Vict. Inst. xxii. 271 etc. (pist. vera Löw No. 44); Gn 43:11 one of the articles carried from Canaan to Egypt by sons of Jacob as present to Joseph; still a delicacy in Egypt and Syria, cf. Wetzst in Löw p. 420.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 43:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.11/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֜ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל אֲבִיהֶ֗ם אִם־כֵּ֣ן ׀ אֵפוֹא֮ זֹ֣את עֲשׂוּ֒ קְח֞וּ מִזִּמְרַ֤ת הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ בִּכְלֵיכֶ֔ם וְהוֹרִ֥ידוּ לָאִ֖ישׁ מִנְחָ֑ה מְעַ֤ט צֳרִי֙ וּמְעַ֣ט דְּבַ֔שׁ נְכֹ֣את וָלֹ֔ט בָּטְנִ֖ים וּשְׁקֵדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to them Israel father their if so then this do take some of.the.best.products of the.land in vessels your and take.down to the man a.gift a.little of.balm and a.little of.honey spice and myrrh pistachio.nuts and almonds

*JPS 1917:* And their father Israel said unto them: 'If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and ladanum, nuts, and almonds;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/992.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/992/): 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).