Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5589
סְעַפָּה
seappahseh-ap-paw'
bough
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çᵉʻappâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5589is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5589
a twig
The King James renders it: bough, branch. Compare H5634 (סַרְעַפָּה).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
seappah is rendered "bough". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezekiel 31:6All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
Ezekiel 31:6בִּסְעַפֹּתָ֤יו
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- boughs its1
- in boughs its1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סְעַד | sead | to support | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּסְעַפֹּתָ֤יו1
- סְעַפֹּתָ֔יו1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfpc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfpc/Sp3ms
Ezekiel
two uses
All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
- בִּסְעַפֹּתָ֤יוbisapotavpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in boughs its
The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.
- סְעַפֹּתָ֔יוseapotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: boughs its
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.