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Strong's #1612 - גֶּפֶן
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- vine, vine tree
- of Israel (figuratively)
- of stars fading at Jehovah´s judgment (metaphorically)
- of prosperity
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2078) npc (גפנ GPN) AC: Bend CO: Grapevine AB: ?: The vines of the grape vine are twisted and bent as it winds around a pole. [from: pk- from the palm as bent]
Nm ) npc (גפנ GPN) - Grapevine: KJV (55): vine, tree - Strongs: H1612 (גֶּפֶן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
גפף (√ of following; compare Syriac in derivatives, curved, convex; also Arabic both hilly country and depression, Frey.)
גֶּפֶן with suff. גַּפְנִי; pl. גְּפָנִים comm. (m. rarely Hosea 10:1; 2 Kings 4:39), a twig, and a plant which has twigs, especially a vine, which however [“comp. salix = ἕλιξ prop. a rod, switch”], when more exactness was needed, as in the laws, is called גֶּפֶן הַיַּיִן Numbers 6:4; Judges 13:14 rarely used of other similar plants, as גֶּפֶן שָׂדֶה 2 Kings 4:39, a wild vine, on which wild cucumbers grew. Hence most commonly it simply denotes a vine, Genesis 40:9; Isaiah 7:23, 24:7 32:12 Judges 9:13, seq. A noble vine figuratively denotes men of more noble qualities, Jeremiah 2:21 (compare Isaiah 5:2); and on the other hand, a wild vine, vine of Sodom (Jer. loc. cit.; Deuteronomy 32:32), denotes men of ignoble and degenerate qualities; as to the latter, see on the apples of Sodom, Jos. Bell. Jud. iv. 8, § 4.