Fruit
אֵבStrong’s H0004ev
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ev is the Aramaic word usually translated “fruit its”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.”
Meaning
- Fruit, fresh, young, greening
How it's translated
- and fruit its 2
- fruit its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:14In contextHe cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
- Daniel 4:21In contextWhose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
Aramaic dictionary
אֵב ev · fruit
fruit, fresh, young, greening Aramaic of ev (אֵב "greenery" H0003)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fruit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FRUIT, noun
[Latin fructus. The Latin word is the participle of fruor, contracted from frugor, or frucor, to use, to take the profit of.]
- In a general sense, whatever the earth produces for the nourishment of animals, or for clothing or profit.
- In a more limited sense, the produce of a tree or other plant; the last production for the propagation or multiplication of its kind; the seed of plants, or the part that contains the seeds; as wheat, rye, oats, apples, quinces, pears, cherries, acorns, melons, etc.
- In botany, the seed of a plant, or the seed with the pericarp.
- Production; that which is produced.“The fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth” Ephesians 5:9
All definitions and other forms of “fruit”
- The produce of animals; offspring; young; as the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
- Effect or consequence.“They shall eat the fruit of their doings” Isaiah 3:10
- Advantage; profit; good derived.“What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?” Romans 6:21
- Production, effect or consequence; in an ill sense; as the fruits of sin; the fruits of intemperance.
FRUIT, verb intransitive
To produce fruit [Not well authorized.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.