Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8247
שָׁקֵד
shaqedshaw-kade'
almond
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâqêd
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8247is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8247
the almond (tree or nut; as being the earliest in bloom)
The King James renders it: almond (tree).
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
shaqed is rendered "almond". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 43:11Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
Genesis 43:11וּשְׁקֵדִֽים׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- almonds1
- an almond tree1
- and almonds1
- the almond tree1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁקָה | shaqah | to water: watering | Uses61 |
| שָׁקַט | shaqat | to quiet | Uses41 |
| שָׁקַל | shaqal | to weigh | Uses22 |
| שָׁקַף | shaqaph | to look | Uses22 |
| שָׁקַד | shaqad | to watch | Uses12 |
| שָׁקַץ | shaqats | to detest | Uses7 |
| שָׁקַד | shaqad | be almond shaped | Uses6 |
| שָׁקַע | shaqa | to sink | Uses6 |
| שָׁקַק | shaqaq | to rush | Uses6 |
| שָׁקַר | shaqar | to deal | Uses6 |
| שָׁקֻף | shaquph | frame | Uses2 |
| שָׁק | shaq | leg | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- הַשָּׁקֵד֙1
- וּשְׁקֵדִֽים׃1
- שָׁקֵ֖ד1
- שְׁקֵדִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
- וּשְׁקֵדִֽים׃ushekedimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and almonds
Numbers
one use
The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.
- שְׁקֵדִֽים׃shekedimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: almonds
Ecclesiastes
one use
when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
- הַשָּׁקֵד֙hashakedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the almond tree
Jeremiah
one use
And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
- שָׁקֵ֖דshakednoun · masculine singulartagged: an almond tree
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
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.