Leafy
עָבוֹתStrong’s H5687avot (a-vot)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avot is the Hebrew word usually translated “leafy”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.”
Meaning
- Having interwoven foliage, leafy, dense with foliage
How it's translated
- leafy 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
- Nehemiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 8:15And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
- Ezekiel 6:13Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
- Ezekiel 20:28For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Hebrew dictionary
עָבוֹת avot · leafy
having interwoven foliage, leafy, dense with foliage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leafy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LE'AFY, adjective
Full of leaves; as the leafy forest.
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.