Crocus
חֲבַצֶּלֶתStrong’s H2261chavatstselet (cha-vats-tse-let)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavatstselet is the Hebrew word usually translated “crocus of” and “like a crocus”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”
Meaning
- Meadow-saffron, crocus, rose
How it's translated
- crocus of 1
- like a crocus 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֲבַצֶּלֶת chavatstselet · crocus
meadow-saffron, crocus, rose
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crocus” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CROCUS, noun
[Gr.]
- Saffron, a genus of plants.
- In chimistry, a yellow powder; any metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color.
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.