Fruit
נוֹבStrong’s H5108nov
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nov is the Hebrew word usually translated “fruit” and “fruit its”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.”
Meaning
- Fruit
How it's translated
- fruit 1
- and fruit its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Malachi 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נוֹב nov · fruit
fruit Another spelling of niv (נִיב "fruit" H5108B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fruit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FRUIT, noun
[Latin fructus. The Latin word is the participle of fruor, contracted from frugor, or frucor, to use, to take the profit of.]
- In a general sense, whatever the earth produces for the nourishment of animals, or for clothing or profit.
- In a more limited sense, the produce of a tree or other plant; the last production for the propagation or multiplication of its kind; the seed of plants, or the part that contains the seeds; as wheat, rye, oats, apples, quinces, pears, cherries, acorns, melons, etc.
- In botany, the seed of a plant, or the seed with the pericarp.
- Production; that which is produced.“The fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth” Ephesians 5:9
All definitions and other forms of “fruit”
- The produce of animals; offspring; young; as the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
- Effect or consequence.“They shall eat the fruit of their doings” Isaiah 3:10
- Advantage; profit; good derived.“What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?” Romans 6:21
- Production, effect or consequence; in an ill sense; as the fruits of sin; the fruits of intemperance.
FRUIT, verb intransitive
To produce fruit [Not well authorized.]
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.