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title: אֲבִיּוֹנָה — caper-berry · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבִיּוֹנָה (35), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: caper-berry. BDB 1906: n.f. caper-berry. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבִיּוֹנָה

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«אֲבִיּוֹנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **caper-berry** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 35 · **BDB:** אֲבִיּוֹנָה

### Glosses

caper-berry (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

caper-berry [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/35/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. caper-berry [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/35/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ec 12:5 (v. GFMJBL 1891, 55 ff.; so 𝔊 𝔙, Mish. אביונות, cf. NHWB; v. also 𝔖 i.e. capparis spinosa, cf. RiHWB; so Thes, Ew De, etc.; but Wetzst in De (Germ. ed. 1875) proposes אֶבְיוֹנָה (as fem. of אביון) the poor soul in sense = נִשְׁמָתוֹ הָאֶבְיוֹנָה cf. Symm 𝔖, where double translation).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲבִיּוֹנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/35/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 12:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.5/)

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גַּ֣ם מִגָּבֹ֤הַּ יִרָ֙אוּ֙ וְחַתְחַתִּ֣ים בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְיָנֵ֤אץ הַשָּׁקֵד֙ וְיִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל הֶֽחָגָ֔ב וְתָפֵ֖ר הָֽאֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ הָאָדָם֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית עוֹלָמ֔וֹ וְסָבְב֥וּ בָשּׁ֖וּקהַסֹּפְדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* also from a.high.\[place\] people.will.be.afraid and terrors \[are\].in the way and it.will.bloom the.almond tree and it.will.drag.itself.along the grasshopper and it.will.fail the caper-berry (dm) \[is\].going (the) humankind to the.house its.perpetuity his and they.will.go.about in the street the mourners

*JPS 1917:* Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

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