Palm
תִּמֹרָהStrong’s H8561timrah (tim-rah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Timrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “palm trees”, “palm tree” and “palm trees its”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.”
Meaning
- Palm tree figure (as ornament)
How it's translated
- and palm trees 11
- palm trees 2
- the palm tree 2
- the palm trees 1
- and palm trees its 1
- and a palm tree 1
- and the palm trees 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 11
- 1 Kings 4
- 2 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 6:32The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 6:35And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
- 1 Kings 7:36For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
- 2 Chronicles 3:5And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
- Ezekiel 40:16And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 40:22And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
Hebrew dictionary
תִּמֹרָה timrah · palm
palm tree figure (as ornament)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “palm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PALM, noun
p'am.. [Latin palma.]
- The inner part of the hand.
- A hand or hand's breadth; a lineal measure of three inches.
- The broad triangular part of an anchor at the end of the arms.
- The name of many species of plants, but particularly of the date-tree or great palm a native of Asia and Africa.
All definitions and other forms of “palm”
- Branches of the palm being worn in token of victory, hence the word signifies superiority, victory, triumph.
- Among seamen, an instrument used in sewing canvas instead of a thimble.
PALM, verb transitive
p'am. To conceal in the palm of the hand.
- To impose by fraud.
- To handle.
- To stroke with the hand.
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.