H0003

אֵב

evH:N-M

greenery

freshness, fresh green, green shoots, or greenery Aramaic equivalent: ev (אֵב "fruit" H0004)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[אֵב] noun [masculine] freshness, fresh green (Lag^{BN 207} Infinitive ibb; thence concrete, compare Arabic ; above stem & meaning better than √ אנב (spring) compare Assyrian inbu, fruit, Aramaic אִנְבֵּהּ (q. v.) Dl^{HA 65, Prov 114}) עֹדֶנּוּ בְאִבּוֺ while yet in its freshness (i.e. אָחוּ, reed) Job 8:12 concrete, plural green shoots בְּאִבֵּי הַנַּחַל Song 6:11 (|| הֲפָֽרְחָה הַגֶּפֶן הֵנֵצוּ הָֽרִמֹּנִים׃.

[Dan 2:4-7:28; Ezra 4:8-6:18; Ezra 7:12-26; Jer 10:11; Gen 31:47^aβ.]

[Note]

NOTE. - In the case of words common to Biblical Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew the etymological matter already given with the Hebrew words is not repeated here. The sign is prefixed to all words peculiar to the Biblical Aramaic. In other cases, except where ᵑ7 or Syriac is mentioned alone, it may be understood that the words occur also in the Aramaic of the ᵑ7s and in Syriac, even when this is not expressly stated.

[אָב] see אבה. below

[אֵב K^{§ 55, 5 a) 2}] noun masculine fruit (Biblical Hebrew; √ אבב); — suffix 3 masculine singular אִנְבֵהּ (K^{§ 11, 4 b}) Dan 4:9; Dan 4:11; Dan 4:18.

2 occurrences

Job (1), Song of Solomon (1)