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# נוּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5107

**bear fruit** — used 4 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

bear fruit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5107/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נוּב: vb. bear fruit Poʿl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5107/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bear fruit (poet.) (Aramaic נוֹבָא fruit (rare));— Impf. יָנוּב ψ 62:11 Pr 10:31; יְנוּבוּן ψ 92:15;—only fig., abs. of righteous under fig. of tree ψ 92:15; חַיִל כִּי יָנוּב 62:11 if wealth beareth fruit; Pr 10:31 פִּי צַדִּיק יָנוּב חָכְמָה beareth the fruit of wisdom. Poʿl. Impf. יְנוֹבֵב Zc 9:17, דָּגָן בַּחוּרִים וְתִירוֹשׁ יְנ׳ בְּתֻלוֹת fig. for makes to flourish.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will bear fruit (2); it will cause to thrive (1); they (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.31/#tree)

פִּֽי־צַ֭דִּיק יָנ֣וּב חָכְמָ֑ה וּלְשׁ֥וֹן תַּ֝הְפֻּכ֗וֹת תִּכָּרֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* the.mouth of.a.righteous.\[person\] it.will.bear.fruit wisdom and a.tongue of.perversiti(es) it.will.be.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* The mouth of the righteous buddeth with wisdom; but the froward tongue shall be cut off.

[Psalms 92:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.15/#tree)

ע֭וֹד יְנוּב֣וּן בְּשֵׂיבָ֑ה דְּשֵׁנִ֖ים וְרַֽעֲנַנִּ֣ים יִהְיֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* still they will.bear.fruit in old.age fat and fresh they.will.be

*JPS 1917:* They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and richness;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5107.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5107/): 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).