אֲבִיּוֹנָה

a.viy.yo.nah

desire

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Strong’s H35Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Ecclesiastes1

Translated as

caper-berry1

In the text

Ecclesiastes 12:5הָאֲבִיּוֹנָה
when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֲבִיּוֹנָה n.f. caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ec 12:5 (v. GFM JBL 1891, 55 ff.; so 𝔊 𝔙, Mish. אביונות, cf. NHWB; v. also 𝔖; i.e. capparis spinosa, cf. Ri HWB; 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).

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.