Bough
עֲנַףStrong’s H6057anaph (a-naph)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “branch”, “branch of” and “branches its”. It appears in 7 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
- Bough, branch
How it's translated
- branch 3
- and branch of 1
- and branches its 1
- branch your 1
- and branch 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Leviticus 1
- Psalms 1
- Malachi 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 80:10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
- Ezekiel 17:8It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
- Ezekiel 17:23In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
- Ezekiel 31:3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
- Ezekiel 36:8But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
- Malachi 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲנַף anaph · bough
bough, branch Aramaic of a.naph (עָנָף "branch" H6057)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bough” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOUGH, noun
bou. The branch of a tree; applied to a branch of size, not to a small shoot.
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.