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Reference: Leaf, Leaves

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Leaf, Leaves.

The word occurs in the Authorized Version either in singular or plural number in three different senses.

1. Leaf of a tree. The righteous are often compared to green leaves.

Jer 17:8

The ungodly, on the other hand, are "as an oak whose leaf fadeth."

Isa 1:30

2. Leaves of doors. The hebrew word, which occurs very many times in the Bible, and which in

1Ki 6:32

(margin) and 1Kin 6:34 is translated "leaves" in the Authorized Version, signifies beams, ribs, sides, etc.

3. Leaves of a book or roll occurs in this sense only in

Jer 36:23

The Hebrew word (literally doors) would perhaps be more correctly translated columns.

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