Tendril
זַלְזַלStrong’s H2150zalzal (zal-zal)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Zalzal is the Hebrew word usually translated “shoots”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.”
Meaning
- (quivering) tendrils, twig, shoot, tendrils
How it's translated
- the shoots 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
זַלְזַל zalzal · tendril
(quivering) tendrils, twig, shoot, tendrils
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tendril” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEN'DRIL, noun
A clasp or clasper of a vine or other climbing or creeping plant; a filiform spiral shoot, that winds round another body. Tendrils or claspers are given to plants that have weak stalks.
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TEN'DRIL, adjective
Clasping; climbing; as a tendril
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.