Poplar
לִבְנֶהStrong’s H3839livneh (liv-neh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Livneh is the Hebrew word usually translated “poplar”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.”
Meaning
- Poplar, white poplara tree which exudes milky-white gum
How it's translated
- poplar 1
- and poplar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Hosea 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
לִבְנֶה livneh · poplar
1) poplar, white poplar 1a) a tree which exudes milky-white gum
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “poplar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POP'LAR, noun
[Latin populus.]
A tree of the genus Populus, of several species, as the abele, the white poplar the black poplar the aspen-tree, etc. It is numbered among the aquatic trees.
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.