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H8247

שָׁקֵד

sha.qedH:N-M

almond

1) almond tree, almonds 1a) almond (the nut) 1b) almond-tree

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

שָׁקֵד noun [masculine] almond (-tree) (Late Hebrew id.; so called from its early waking out of winter's sleep, according to Ki Thes LagBN 45 and others; Aramaic שִׁיגְדָּא, , , whence Ethiopic compare NöM 39; compare LöwNo. 319); —

1. almond, i.e. the nut, plural שְׁקֵדִים Gen 43:11 (J; +בָּטְנִים, etc.), Num 17:23 (P).
2. almond-tree Jer 1:11 and (probably) Eccl 12:5.

2 occurrences

Ecclesiastes (1), Jeremiah (1)