סְמַדֵר
grape blossom
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5563 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Song of Solomon 3 verses
- Song of Solomon 2:13 סְמָדַ֖ר n c ms The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, And come away. Lover
- Song of Solomon 2:15 סְמָדַֽר n c ms Catch for us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom. Beloved
- Song of Solomon 7:12 הַ/סְּמָדַ֔ר ptcl def.art + n c ms Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, Its blossom is open, And the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“grape blossom” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun סמדר (çᵉmâdar). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. It clusters heavily in Song of Solomon, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Song of Solomon 2:13. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5563 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Song of Solomon 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Have tender grapes 1×, Tender grape 1×, Whether the tender grape 1×
- American Standard Version: Are in blossom 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are in bloom 1×, Blossom 1×, Blossoming 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are in blossom 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5563 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5563 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5563 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5563 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- grape blossom, grape bud
Word origin
, also סְמָדַ֔ר֖, סְמָדַ֑ר n.m. Ct 7:13 blossom of grape (just at flowering DuvalREJ xiv (1887), 277–81 NH id.; Aramaic סמדד, ܣܡܳܕܪܳܐ, Mand. סימאדרא NöM. 128);—always abs. ס׳, only Ct: הַגְּפָנִים סְמָדַר֖ 2:13 the vines are (all) blossom; כְּרָמִים סְמָדַ֑ר v 15 (on bold predicate cf. Ges§ 141 d); פִּתַּח הַסְּמָדַר 7:13 the blossom has opened (its buds).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סְמָדַר
- (b. h.) (berry) in the budding stage. Gitt. III, 8 בהוצאת ס׳ at budding time. Orl. I, 7 העלים … והס׳ מותרין וכ׳ Ms. M. the leaves, the sprouts, the sap of vines and the budding berries are permitted in the third year; ib. הס׳ אסור וכ׳ the buds are forbidden, because they are fruits; Sifra K’dosh. ch. V, Par. 3 מֵי ס׳. Ber. 36ᵇ (contrad. to בּוֹסֶר). B. Kam. 58ᵇ המבכיר כרם … ס׳ he who cuts (the berries of) his neighbor’s vineyard in the budding stage. Ib. 59ᵃ; a. e.
סְמָדָר
- Targ. Is. XVIII, 5 (h. text גמל).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H5563 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/סְּמָדַ֔ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Song of Solomon 7:12 | 1 |
| סְמָדַ֖ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Song of Solomon 2:13 | 1 |
| סְמָדַֽר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Song of Solomon 2:15 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
