Fig
תְּאֵנָהStrong’s H8384teenah (te-e-nah)
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Teenah is the Hebrew word usually translated “figs”, “own fig tree his” and “fig tree”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.”
Meaning
- Fig, fig tree
How it's translated
- figs 7
- own fig tree his 4
- a fig tree 3
- the figs 2
- and fig tree 2
- the fig tree 2
- and the fig tree 2
- fig tree 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 8
- Isaiah 3
- Joel 3
- Numbers 2
- Judges 2
- 2 Kings 2
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Numbers 13:23And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Numbers 20:5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
- Deuteronomy 8:8A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- Judges 9:10And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
- Judges 9:11But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
All 35 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
תְּאֵנָה teenah · fig
fig, fig tree
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fig” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FIG, noun
[Latin ficus; Heb.]
- The fruit of the fig tree, which is of a round or oblong shape, and a dark purplish color, with a pulp of a sweet taste.
- The fig tree.
All definitions and other forms of “fig”
FIG, verb transitive
- To insult with ficoes or contemptuous motions of the fingers. [Little used.]
- To put something useless into one's head. [Not used.]
FIG'-APPLE, noun
A species of apple.
FIG'-GNAT, noun
An insect of the fly kind.
FIG'-LEAF, noun
The leaf of a fig tree; also, a thin covering in allusion to the first covering of Adam and Eve.
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.