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Nut

אֱגוֹזStrong’s H0093

egoz (e-goz)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Egoz is the Hebrew word usually translated “nut”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.”
Song of Solomon 6:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. Nuts
How it's translated
  • nut 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Song of Solomon 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    אֱגוֹז egoz · nut

    nuts

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “nut” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    NUT, noun

    [It seems to be allied to knot, a bunch or hard lump.]

    1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs, consisting of a hard shell inclosing a kernel.
    2. In mechanics, a small cylinder or other body, with teeth or projections corresponding with the teeth or grooves of a wheel.
    3. The projection near the eye of an anchor.
    All definitions and other forms of “nut”

      NUT, verb transitive

      To gather nuts.

        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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.