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# חֹטֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2415

**branch** — 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

branch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2415/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹ֫טֶר: n.m. branch twig, rod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2415/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. branch or twig, rod—metaph. abs. ח׳ branch, twig, Is 11:1 ויצא ח׳ מִגֶּזַע יִשָׁ֑י (‖ נֵצֶר); cstr. rod, בְּפִי־אֱוִיל חֹטֶר גַּאֲוָ֑ה Pr 14:3.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: 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: a branch (1); a rod (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 14:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.3/#tree)

בְּֽפִי־אֱ֭וִיל חֹ֣טֶר גַּאֲוָ֑ה וְשִׂפְתֵ֥י חֲ֝כָמִ֗ים תִּשְׁמוּרֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].in.\[the\] mouth of.a.fool a.rod of.pride and.\[the\] lips of.wise.\[people\] it preserves.them

*JPS 1917:* In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

[Isaiah 11:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.1/#tree)

וְיָצָ֥א חֹ֖טֶר מִגֵּ֣זַע יִשָׁ֑י וְנֵ֖צֶר מִשָּׁרָשָׁ֥יו יִפְרֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.go.forth a.branch from the.rootstock of.Jesse and a.shoot from roots his it.will.bear.fruit

*JPS 1917:* And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2415.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2415/): 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).