Branch And Bough
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [1]
bransh : Represented by very many words in the Hebrew.
(1) זמורה , zemōrāh used especially of a vine branch. The spies "cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes" ( Numbers 13:23 ). See also Ezekiel 15:2; Nahum 2:2 . "They put the branch to their nose" ( Ezekiel 8:17 ), refers to some unknown idolatrous practice, as does also Isaiah 17:10 , "thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips," or "vine slips of a strange (god)" the Revised Version, margin.
(2) יונקת , yōneḳeth , literally "a sucker." "The tender branch thereof will not cease" ( Job 14:7 ). Used figuratively of Israel, Psalm 80:11 (the Revised Version (British and American) "shoots"); Ezekiel 17:22 the King James Version; Hosea 14:6 , and of the wicked, Job 8:16 (the Revised Version (British and American) "shoots"), Job 15:30 .
(3) כּפה , kippāh , Job 15:32 . Isaiah 9:14; Isaiah 19:15 , the Revised Version (British and American) has "palm-branch," "Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day" ( Isaiah 9:14 ).
(4) נצר , nēcer (of the same Hebrew root, according to many commentators, as Nazareth), literally "a little shoot springing from the root" ("out of a shoot from her roots," Daniel 11:7 ), which may be planted out to grow ( Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 60:21 ), or may be rooted out and thrown away ( Isaiah 14:19 ).
(5) צמח , cemaḥ ̌ . The "branch" of Messianic prophecy. See Prophecy . "In that day shall the branch (m "shoot" or "sprout") of Yahweh be beautiful and glorious" ( Isaiah 4:2 ); "a shoot out of the stock of Jesse" ( Isaiah 11:1 ); "a righteous branch" ( Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 33:15 ): "my servant the Branch" ( Zechariah 3:8 ); "the man whose name is the Branch" ( Zechariah 6:12 ).
(6) קנה , ḳānāh , is used for the "branches" of the golden candlesticks ( Exodus 25:32; Exodus 37:18 ). Literally, ḳānāh means a "reed."
There are a number of words, less frequently used, meaning "branch":
(7) בּדּים , baddı̄m (plural only used; Ezekiel 17:6; Ezekiel 19:14 ).
(8) דּלית , dālı̄th (plural only used; Jeremiah 11:16 ).
(9) מטּה , maṭṭeh ( Ezekiel 19:11 ).
(10) סעיף , ṣā‛ı̄ph ( Isaiah 18:5; סעפה , ṣe‛appāh (plural) ( Ezekiel 31:6 ); סרעפה , ṣar‛appāh ( Ezekiel 31:5 ).
(11) ענף , ‛ānāph ( Malachi 4:1; Psalm 80:11 ); ענף , ‛ănāph ( Daniel 4:14 , Daniel 4:21 ); ענף , 'eneph ( Ezekiel 36:8 ).
(12) פארה , pu'rāh , "a bough" ( Isaiah 10:33 ); פארות , pō'rōth (pl. only) ( Ezekiel 31:5 , Ezekiel 31:8 ).
(13) צמּרת , cammereth , "foliage" or "boughs of trees," literally "locks" or "fleece" of trees ( Ezekiel 17:3; Ezekiel 31:3 ).
(14) קציר , ḳācı̄r (collective) ( Job 14:9 ), "boughs" ( Psalm 80:11 ), "branches."
(15) שׁבּלת , shı̄bbeleth , the two olive branches of Zechariah 4:12 .
(16) שׂוך , sōḳḥ , root meaning "to interweave" ( Judges 9:49 ); שׂוכה , sōkhāh ( Judges 9:48 ), "boughs."
(17) שׂריג , sārı̄gh (pl. only, שׂריגים , sārı̄ghı̄m ), "branches" (of the vine) ( Genesis 40:10; Joel 1:7 ).
Represented in Greek in the New Testament:
(1) βαΐ́ον , baı́on ( John 12:13 ), "a palm branch."
(2) κλάδος , kládos ( Matthew 13:32; Matthew 21:8; Matthew 24:32; Mark 4:32; Mark 13:28; Luke 13:19; Romans 11:16 , Romans 11:17 , Romans 11:18 , Romans 11:19 , Romans 11:21 ).
(3) κλῆμα , klḗma , a slip or cutting of the vine, especially one cut off to be grafted into another plant ( John 15:2 , John 15:4 , John 15:5 , John 15:6 ).
(4) στίβας , stı́bas (= στοιβάς , stoibás ), a "twig" or "bough" ( Mark 11:8 ).
