Branch
דָּלִיּוֹתStrong’s H1808daliyyah (da-liy-yah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Daliyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “branches its”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.”
Meaning
- Branch, boughof Israel (fig.) (used with olive tree, vine, cedar tree)
How it's translated
- branches its 7
- and branches its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 7
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 17:6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
- Ezekiel 17:7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
- Ezekiel 17:23In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
- Ezekiel 19:11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
- Ezekiel 31:7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
- Ezekiel 31:9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּלִיּוֹת daliyyah · branch
1) branch, bough 1a) of Israel (fig.) (used with olive tree, vine, cedar tree)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “branch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BR'ANCH, noun
- The shoot of a tree or other plant; a limb; a bough shooting from the stem, or from another branch or bough.
- Any arm or extended part shooting or extended from the main body of a thing; as the branch of a candlestick or of an artery.
- Any member or part of a body, or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; as, charity is a branch of christian duty.
- Any individual of a family descending in a collateral line; any descendant from a common parent or stock.
All definitions and other forms of “branch”
- Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron which bear the bit, the cross chains and the curb.
- In architecture, branches of ogives are the arches of Gothic vaults, traversing from one angle to another diagonally, and forming a cross between the other arches, which make the sides of the square, of which these arches are diagonals.
- A warrant or commission given to a pilot.
- A chandelier.
BR'ANCH, verb intransitive
To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify, as a plant, or as horns.
- To divide into separate parts, or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.
- To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.
- To have horns shooting out.
BR'ANCH, verb transitive
To divide as into branches; to make subordinate divisions.
- To adorn with needle work, representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
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.