עָנָף
branch
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
3 distinct verses where H6057 appears in the Construct state, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Leviticus 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
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.
At its core, ענף (ʻânâph) means “branch.” The word gravitates to Ezekiel (57%), then Leviticus and Psalms. It turns up in 7 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 23:40. It shares a root with ענף and ענף. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6057 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
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 7 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 71%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 14%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 14%
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: Branches 3×, Boughs 2×
- American Standard Version: Branches 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Branches 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Branches 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6057 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6057 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6057 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6057 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear 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.
- bough, branch
Word origin
n.[m.] branch(es), bough(s);—usually sg. coll., abs. ע׳ branches of vine Ez 17:8, pl. only sf. עֲנָפֶיהָ ψ 80:11 (both in fig.); boughs of tree, cstr. עֲנַף Lv 23:40, sf. (as if from *עֶנֶף Köii. 1, 74) עַנְפְּכֶם Ez 36:8; sg. abs. (in fig.) Mal 3:19, of cedar Ez 17:23; 31:3.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to cover
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.
עָנָף
- c. (b. h.; ramification, branch, foliage; locks. Men. 42ᵃ אין ציצית אלא ע׳ tsitsith (Num. XV, 38, sq.) means locks (fringes), as we read (Ez. VIII, 3) &c. Sifra Emor, Par. 12, ch. XVI (ref. to עץ עבת, Lev. XXIII, 40) את שעֲנַף עצו דומה וכ׳ (not עצן), v. עָבוֹת; Pesik. Ul’kaḥ., p. 183ᵇ עץ שע׳ עצו (corr. acc.).—Pl. עֲנָפִים. Succ. 32ᵇ שעֲנָפָיו חופין וכ׳; Y. ib. III, 53ᶜ bot., v. עָבוֹת. Ib. ענפיו חופות וכ׳ its (the Zargunah’s) foliage covers the largest portion of it, but forms no veil; a. e. e.g. Numbers 15:38
עֲנַף
- Targ. Ez. XVII, 8. Targ. Is. XVII, 6 (ed. Lag. צנפא; h. text אָמִיר).
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 6 distinct written forms H6057 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָנָף֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 17:8 | 2 |
| וְ/עָנָֽף | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Malachi 4:1 | 1 |
| וַ/עֲנַ֥ף | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 23:40 | 1 |
| וַ֝/עֲנָפֶ֗י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 80:10 | 1 |
| עַנְפְּ/כֶ֣ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 36:8 | 1 |
| עָנָ֛ף | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 31:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6057, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 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.
