תְּאֵנָה
te.e.nah
“fig”
Definition
the fig (tree or fruit)
or (in the singular, feminine) תְּאֵנָה; perhaps of foreign derivation
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
תְּאֵנָה appears 33 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
But the fig tree replied,‘Should I stop giving my sweetnessand my good fruit,to hold sway over the trees?’
this is what the LORD of Hosts says:“I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
And each man will sit under his own vineand under his own fig tree,with no one to frighten him.For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
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