Lexical Summary shaqed: almond (tree) Original Word: שָׁקֵדTransliteration: shaqed Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kade') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: almond (tree) Meaning: almond (tree) Strong's Concordance almond tree From shaqad; the almond (tree or nut; as being the earliest in bloom) -- almond (tree). see HEBREW shaqad Brown-Driver-Briggs H8247. shaqed שָׁקֵד noun [masculine] almond (-tree) (Late Hebrew id.; so called from its early waking out of winter's sleep, according to Ki Thes LagBN 45 and others; Aramaic שִׁיגְדָּא, , , whence Ethiopic compare NöM 39; compare LöwNo. 319); — 1 almond, i.e. the nut, plural שְׁקֵדִים Genesis 43:11 (J; +בָּטְנִים, etc.), Numbers 17:23 (P). 2 almond-tree Jeremiah 1:11 and (probably) Ecclesiastes 12:5. |
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