יוֹנֶקֶתyôwneqeth
young shoot, twig, of tree (Job 8:16; Hosea 14:7; Ezekiel 17:22; Psalms 80:12; Job 14:7)
Pronunciation: yo-neh'-keth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3127
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Job 8:16 The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine, its branches spreading across the garden.
- Job 14:7 “Even a tree has more hope! If it is cut down, it will sprout again and grow new branches.
- Job 15:30 “They will not escape the darkness. The burning sun will wither their shoots, and the breath of God will destroy them.
- Psalms 80:11 We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.
- Ezekiel 17:22 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take a branch from the top of a tall cedar, and I will plant it on the top of Israel’s highest mountain.
- Hosea 14:6 Its branches will spread out like beautiful olive trees, as fragrant as the cedars of Lebanon.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).