Tendril
נְטִישָׁהStrong’s H5189netishah (ne-ti-shah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Netishah is the Hebrew word usually translated “tendrils”, “vine tendrils its” and “tendrils your”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.”
Meaning
- Twig, tendril, tendrils of a vine (as spread out)
How it's translated
- the tendrils 1
- vine tendrils its 1
- tendrils your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 5:10Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
- Jeremiah 48:32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Hebrew dictionary
נְטִישָׁה netishah · tendril
twig, tendril, tendrils of a vine (as spread out)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tendril” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEN'DRIL, noun
A clasp or clasper of a vine or other climbing or creeping plant; a filiform spiral shoot, that winds round another body. Tendrils or claspers are given to plants that have weak stalks.
All definitions and other forms of “tendril”
TEN'DRIL, adjective
Clasping; climbing; as a tendril
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.