Strong’s
H3Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Job 8:12בְאִבּוֹ
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.
- Song of Songs 6:11בְּאִבֵּי
I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[אֵב] n.[m.] freshness, fresh green (Lag B N 207 inf. ibb; thence concr., cf. Ar. Arabic; above stem & mng. better than √ אנב (spring) cf. As. inbu, fruit, Aram. אִנְבֵּהּ (q.v.) Dl HA 65, Pr 114) עֹדֶנּוּ בְאִבּוֹ while in its freshness (i.e. אָחוּ, reed) Jb 8:12; concr., pl. green shoots בְּאִבֵּי הַנַּחַל Ct 6:11 (∥ הֲפָֽרְחָה הַגֶּפֶן הֵנֵצוּ הָרִמֹּנִֽים׃).
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.