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title: אֵב — freshness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵב (3), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: freshness. BDB 1906: freshness, fresh green. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵב

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«אֵב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **freshness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3 · **BDB:** אֵב

### Glosses

greenness (1); the.green.shoots (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

freshness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/3/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

freshness, fresh green [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/3/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] freshness, fresh green (LagBN207 Inf. ibb; thence concr., cf. Arabic أَبٌّ herbage, pasture; above stem \& meaning better than √אנב (spring) cf. Aramaic אִנְבֵּהּ (q.v.) DlHA65, Pr114) עֿדֶנּוּ בְאִבּוֹ while yet in its freshness (i.e. אָחוּ, reed) Jb 8:12; concr., pl. green shoots בְּאִבֵּי הַנַּחַל Ct 6:11 (‖ הֲפָֽרְחָה הַגֶּפֶן הֵנֵצוּ הָֽרִמֹּנִים׃).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/3/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 8:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.12/)

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עֹדֶ֣נּוּ בְ֭אִבּוֹ לֹ֣א יִקָּטֵ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֖י כָל־חָצִ֣יר יִיבָֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* still it \[is\].in greenness its not it.is.plucked.off and before any herbage it.is.dried.up

*JPS 1917:* Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

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[Song of Songs 6:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.11/)

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אֶל־גִּנַּ֤ת אֱגוֹז֙ יָרַ֔דְתִּי לִרְא֖וֹת בְּאִבֵּ֣י הַנָּ֑חַל לִרְאוֹת֙ הֲפָֽרְחָ֣ה הַגֶּ֔פֶן הֵנֵ֖צוּ הָרִמֹּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* to a.garden of.nut\[s\] I.went.down to look on the.green.shoots of the.wadi to see had it.budded? the vine had.they.bloomed? the pomegranates

*JPS 1917:* I went down into the garden of nuts, to look at the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

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