Almond
שָׁקֵדStrong’s H8247shaqed (sha-qed)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaqed is the Hebrew word usually translated “almonds” and “almond tree”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:”
Meaning
- Almond tree, almondsalmond (the nut) · almond-tree
How it's translated
- and almonds 1
- almonds 1
- the almond tree 1
- an almond tree 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 17:8And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Jeremiah 1:11Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁקֵד shaqed · almond
1) almond tree, almonds 1a) almond (the nut) 1b) almond-tree
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “almond” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AL'MOND, noun
- The fruit of the almond tree; an ovate, compressed nut, perforated in the pores.
- The tonsils, two glands near the basis of the tongue, are called almonds, from their resemblance to that nut; vulgularly, but improperly, called the almonds of the ears, as they belong to the throat.
- In Portugal, a measure by which wine is sold, twenty-six of which make a pipe.
- Among lapidaries, almonds signify pieces of rock crystal, used in adorning branch candlesticks, so called from their resemblance to this fruit.
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.