עֳפִי
foliage
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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6074 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.
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 4:12 עָפְיֵ֤/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed from it.
- Daniel 4:14 עָפְיֵ֖/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
- Daniel 4:21 וְ/עָפְיֵ֤/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms whose leaves were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:
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, עפי (ʻŏphîy) means “foliage.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). First canonically at Daniel 4:12, it enters the text early. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6074 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
- Daniel 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: Leaves 3×
- American Standard Version: Leaves 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Leaves 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Leaves 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6074 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6074 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6074 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6074 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- leafage, foliage
Word origin
[ עֳפִי ] n.m. leafage, foliage
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עפא (ʻŏpheʼ) (H6073) — branch.
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.
עֲפֵי
- (= עיף; v. עוּף I) [to be bent,] to toil. Targ. Prov. XXI, 25 עָפְיָין ed. Lag. (some ed. a. Levita עפייץ, corr. acc.; Bxt. a. ed. Wil. צָבְיָין).
- to spread, be doubled, thick-branched. Part. מַעֲפֵי; f. מְעַפְיָא. Targ. Hos. IV, 13. Targ. Ez. VI, 13 (h. text עֲבֻתָּה, v. עָבוֹת).
עֳפִי
- (preced.) sprouting, foliage, branches. Targ. Cant. I, 16 (fr. Dan. IV, 18. Targ. Ez. XXXI, 3 עָפְיֵיה Regia (ed. נוֹפֵיה).—Pl. עַפְיָין. Targ. Cant. II, 2 עַפְיָהָא.—V. אוּפֵי. e.g. Daniel 4:18
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 H6074 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/עָפְיֵ֤/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:21 | 1 |
| עָפְיֵ֖/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:14 | 1 |
| עָפְיֵ֤/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:12 | 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
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