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Tendril

שָׂרֹקStrong’s H8291

saruq (sa-ruq)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Saruq is the Hebrew word usually translated “choice grapes its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.”
Isaiah 16:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Vine-tendrils or clusters
How it's translated
  • choice grapes its 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    שָׂרֹק saruq · tendril

    vine-tendrils or clusters

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    TEN'DRIL, noun

    A clasp or clasper of a vine or other climbing or creeping plant; a filiform spiral shoot, that winds round another body. Tendrils or claspers are given to plants that have weak stalks.

      All definitions and other forms of “tendril”

        TEN'DRIL, adjective

        Clasping; climbing; as a tendril

          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.