Shoot
יוֹנֶ֫קֶתStrong’s H3127yoneqet (yo-ne-qet)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yoneqet is the Hebrew word usually translated “young shoots its”, “young shoot its” and “young shoot his”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.”
Meaning
- Young plant, twig, young shoot
How it's translated
- young shoots its 3
- young shoot its 1
- and young shoot its 1
- young shoot his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Psalms 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Hosea 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 14:7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
- Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
- Psalms 80:11She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
- Ezekiel 17:22Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
- Hosea 14:6His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Hebrew dictionary
יוֹנֶ֫קֶת yoneqet · shoot
young plant, twig, young shoot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shoot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOOT, verb transitive
prte. and participle passive shot. The old participle shotten, is obsolete. [Latin scateo, to shoot out water.]
- To let fly and drive with force; as, to shoot an arrow.
- To discharge and cause to be driven with violence; as, to shoot a ball.
- To let off; used of the instrument.
- To strike with any thing shot; as, to shoot with an arrow or a bullet.
All definitions and other forms of “shoot”
- To send out; to push forth; as, a plant shoots a branch.
- To push out; to emit; to dart; to thrust forth.
- To push forward; to drive; to propel; as, to shoot a bolt.
- To push out; to thrust forward.“They shoot out the lip” Psalms 22:7
- To pass through with swiftness; as, to shoot the Stygian flood.
- To fit to each other by planing; a workman's term.
- To kill by a ball, arrow or other thing shot; as, to shoot a duck.
SHOOT, verb intransitive
- To perform the act of discharging, sending with force, or driving any thing by means of an engine or instrument; as, ot shoot at a target or mark.“The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him” Genesis 49:23
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout; to send forth branches.
- To form by shooting, or by an arrangement of particles into spiculae.
- To be emitted, sent forth or driven along.
- To protuberate; to be pushed out; to jut; to project.
- To pass, as an arrow or pointed instrument; to penetrate.
- To grow rapidly; to become by rapid growth.
- To move with velocity; as a shooting star.
- To feel a quick darting pain.
SHOOT, noun
- The act of propelling or driving any thing with violence; the discharge of a fire-arm or bow; as a good shot.
- The act of striking or endeavoring to strike with a massive weapon.
- A young branch.
- A young swine. [In New England pronounced shote.]
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.