Plantation
נֶ֫טַעStrong’s H5194neta (ne-ta)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neta is the Hebrew word usually translated “plant”, “plantation of” and “plantations of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.”
Meaning
- Plantation, plant, plantingplantation · planting (act of) · plant
How it's translated
- a plant 1
- plantation of 1
- plantations of 1
- planting your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
- Isaiah 17:10Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
- Isaiah 17:11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫טַע neta · plantation
1) plantation, plant, planting 1a) plantation 1b) planting (act of) 1c) plant
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plantation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLANTA'TION, noun
[Latin plantatio, from planto, to plant.]
- The act of planting or setting in the earth for growth.
- The place planted; applied to ground planted with trees, as an orchard or the like.
- In the United States and the West Indies, a cultivated estate; a farm.
- An original settlement in a new country; a town or village planted.
All definitions and other forms of “plantation”
- A colony.
- A first planting; introduction; establishment; as the plantation of christianity in England.
PLANT'-CANE, noun
In the West Indies, the original plants of the sugar cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut.
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.