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# יוֹנֶקֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3127

**young shoot** — used 6 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

young shoot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3127/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹנֶ֫קֶת: n.f. young shoot, twig [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3127/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. young shoot, twig (= foregoing)—יוֹנַקְתּוֹ Jb 8:16 + 2 times; יוֹנְקוֹתָיו Ho 14:7; יֹנְקוֹתָיו Ez 17:22; יוֹנְקוֹתֶיהָ ψ 80:12;—shoot, twig, of tree Jb 14:7; of wicked under fig. of tree Jb 8:16; 15:30; Israel under fig. of olive-tree Ho 14:7, of cedar Ez 17:22, of vine ψ 80:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: shoot\[s\] (2); shoots (2); its young (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 80:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.12/#tree)

תְּשַׁלַּ֣ח קְצִירֶ֣הָ עַד־יָ֑ם וְאֶל־נָ֝הָ֗ר יֽוֹנְקוֹתֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* it.stretched.out branch\[es\] its to \[the\].sea and to \[the\].river shoots its.young

*JPS 1917:* She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.

[Job 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.16/#tree)

רָטֹ֣ב ה֭וּאלִפְנֵי־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וְעַ֥ל גַּ֝נָּת֗וֹ יֹֽנַקְתּ֥וֹתֵצֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.fresh.\[plant\] he before \[the\].sun and over garden its shoot\[s\] its.young it.goes.out

*JPS 1917:* He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3127.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3127/): 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).