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Flower

נֵץStrong’s H5322

nets

Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Nets is the Hebrew word usually translated “falcon” and “blossom its”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

“And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:”
Genesis 40:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. Blossom
  2. A unclean bird of preyhawk, falcon · perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
  • the falcon 2
  • blossom its 1
  • a falcon 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1
  • Leviticus 1
  • Deuteronomy 1
  • Job 1

4 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

נֵץ nets · flower

blossom

נֵץ nets · hawk

1) a unclean bird of prey 1a) hawk, falcon 1b) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “flower” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FLOW'ER, noun

[Latin flos, floris, a flower; floreo, to blossom. See Flourish.]

  1. In botany, that part of a plant which contains the organs of fructification, with their coverings.
  2. In vulgar acceptation, a blossom or flower is the flower bud of a plant, when the petals are expanded; open petals being considered as the principal thing in constituting a flower But in botany, the petals are now considered as a finer sort of covering, and not at all necessary to constitute a flower
  3. The early part of life, or rather of manhood; the prime; youthful vigor; youth; as the flower of age or of life.
  4. The best or finest part of a thing; the most valuable part.
All definitions and other forms of “flower”
  1. The finest part; the essence.
  2. He or that which is most distinguished for any thing valuable.
  3. The finest part of grain pulverized.
  4. Flowers, in chimistry, fine particles of bodies, especially when raised by fire in sublimation, and adhering to the heads of vessels in the form of a powder or mealy substance; as the flowers of sulphur.
  5. In rhetoric, figures and ornaments of discourse or composition.
  6. Menstrual discharges.

FLOW'ER, verb intransitive

[from the noun. The corresponding word in Latin is floreo.]

  1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant.
  2. To be in the prime and spring of life; to flourish; to be youthful, fresh and vigorous.
  3. To froth; to ferment gently; to mantle, as new beer.
  4. To come as cream from the surface.

FLOW'ER, verb transitive

To embellish with figures of flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers.

    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.