Bud
גִּבְעֹלStrong’s H1392givol (giv-ol)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Givol is the Hebrew word usually translated “bud”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.”
Meaning
- Bud
How it's translated
- bud 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
גִּבְעֹל givol · bud
bud
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bud” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUD, noun
[Gr. to plant or beget.]
A gem; the shoot of a plant; a small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves or a flower. It is called by botanists the hybernacle, the winter lodge or receptacle of the leaves or flowers of plants, and is an epitome of a flower, or of a shoot, which is to be unfolded the succeeding summer. It is covered with scales, which are intended to defend the inclosed rudiments from cold and other external injuries.are of three kinds; that containing the flower; that containing the leaves; and that containing both flower and leaves.
All definitions and other forms of “bud”
BUD, verb intransitive
To put forth or produce buds or gems.
- To put forth shoots; to grow as a bud into a flower or shoot.
- To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud as a horn.
- To be in bloom, or growing like a young plant.
BUD, verb transitive
To inoculate a plant; to insert the bud of a plant under the bark of another tree, for the purpose of raising, upon any stock, a species of fruit different from that of the stock.
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.