Fruit
תְּנוּבָהStrong’s H8570tenuvah (te-nu-vah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tenuvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “fruits of”, “fruit my” and “fruit”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;”
Meaning
- Fruit, produce
How it's translated
- fruits of 1
- fruit my 1
- fruit 1
- from produce of 1
- and produce of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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?
- Isaiah 27:6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
- Lamentations 4:9They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
- Ezekiel 36:30And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Hebrew dictionary
תְּנוּבָה tenuvah · fruit
fruit, produce
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fruit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FRUIT, noun
[Latin fructus. The Latin word is the participle of fruor, contracted from frugor, or frucor, to use, to take the profit of.]
- In a general sense, whatever the earth produces for the nourishment of animals, or for clothing or profit.
- In a more limited sense, the produce of a tree or other plant; the last production for the propagation or multiplication of its kind; the seed of plants, or the part that contains the seeds; as wheat, rye, oats, apples, quinces, pears, cherries, acorns, melons, etc.
- In botany, the seed of a plant, or the seed with the pericarp.
- Production; that which is produced.“The fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth” Ephesians 5:9
All definitions and other forms of “fruit”
- The produce of animals; offspring; young; as the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
- Effect or consequence.“They shall eat the fruit of their doings” Isaiah 3:10
- Advantage; profit; good derived.“What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?” Romans 6:21
- Production, effect or consequence; in an ill sense; as the fruits of sin; the fruits of intemperance.
FRUIT, verb intransitive
To produce fruit [Not well authorized.]
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.