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חֹטֵרStrong’s H2415

choter (cho-ter)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Choter is the Hebrew word usually translated “shoot of” and “shoot”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.”
Proverbs 14:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Branch, twig, rod
How it's translated
  • a shoot of 1
  • a shoot 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Proverbs 1
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

חֹטֵר choter · branch

branch, twig, rod

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

  1. The shoot of a tree or other plant; a limb; a bough shooting from the stem, or from another branch or bough.
  2. 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.
  3. Any member or part of a body, or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; as, charity is a branch of christian duty.
  4. 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”
  1. Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron which bear the bit, the cross chains and the curb.
  2. 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.
  3. A warrant or commission given to a pilot.
  4. A chandelier.

BR'ANCH, verb intransitive

To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify, as a plant, or as horns.

  1. To divide into separate parts, or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.
  2. To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.
  3. To have horns shooting out.

BR'ANCH, verb transitive

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate divisions.

  1. 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.