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# עָנָף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6057

**branch** — used 7 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/1506/6057/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָנָף: branch(es), bough(s) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6057/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] branch(es), bough(s);—usually sg. coll., abs. ע׳ branches of vine Ez 17:8, pl. only sf. עֲנָפֶיהָ ψ 80:11 (both in fig.); boughs of tree, cstr. עֲנַף Lv 23:40, sf. (as if from \*עֶנֶף Köii. 1, 74) עַנְפְּכֶם Ez 36:8; sg. abs. (in fig.) Mal 3:19, of cedar Ez 17:23; 31:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: branch\[es\] (4); branch (1); branches (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 80:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.11/#tree)

כָּסּ֣וּ הָרִ֣ים צִלָּ֑הּ וַ֝עֲנָפֶ֗יהָ אַֽרְזֵי־אֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* they.were.covered mountains shade its and branches its the.cedars of.God

*JPS 1917:* The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.

[Ezekiel 36:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.36.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.36.8/#tree)

וְאַתֶּ֞ם הָרֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ עַנְפְּכֶ֣ם תִּתֵּ֔נוּ וּפֶרְיְכֶ֥ם תִּשְׂא֖וּ לְעַמִּ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֥י קֵרְב֖וּ לָבֽוֹא׃

*Word for word:* and you O.mountains of.Israel branch\[es\] your you.will.extend and fruit your you.will.bear for people my Israel (dm) they.have.brought.near to come

*JPS 1917:* But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to My people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6057.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6057/): 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).