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# סְמַדֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5563

**blossom** — used 3 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

blossom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5563/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְמָדֵר: n.m. blossom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5563/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** , also סְמָדַ֔ר֖, סְמָדַ֑ר n.m. Ct 7:13 blossom of grape (just at flowering DuvalREJ xiv (1887), 277–81 NH id.; Aramaic סמדד, ܣܡܳܕܪܳܐ, Mand. סימאדרא NöM. 128);—always abs. ס׳, only Ct: הַגְּפָנִים סְמָדַר֖ 2:13 the vines are (all) blossom; כְּרָמִים סְמָדַ֑ר v 15 (on bold predicate cf. Ges§ 141 d); פִּתַּח הַסְּמָדַר 7:13 the blossom has opened (its buds).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: blossom (2); \[are\] blossom (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.15/#tree)

אֶֽחֱזוּ־לָ֙נוּ֙ שֽׁוּעָלִ֔ים שֽׁוּעָלִ֥ים קְטַנִּ֖ים מְחַבְּלִ֣ים כְּרָמִ֑ים וּכְרָמֵ֖ינוּ סְמָדַֽר׃

*Word for word:* seize for us foxes foxes small \[which\].ruin vineyards and vineyards our \[are\].blossom

*JPS 1917:* 'Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.'

[Song of Songs 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.13/#tree)

הַתְּאֵנָה֙ חָֽנְטָ֣ה פַגֶּ֔יהָ וְהַגְּפָנִ֥ים ׀ סְמָדַ֖ר נָ֣תְנוּ רֵ֑יחַ ק֥וּמִי לָ֛ךְ רַעְיָתִ֥י יָפָתִ֖י וּלְכִי־לָֽךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.fig tree it.has.ripened figs its.early and the vines blossom they.have.given.forth odor arise (for yourself my.friend my my.beautiful \[one\] and come (for yourself

*JPS 1917:* The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5563/): 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).