27 occurrences in 11 translations

'Boughs' in the Bible

And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of TabernaclesSeven DaysFoliageWillowsBrooks

When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfDoing Things TwiceOlive Trees

And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

Verse ConceptsMulesBackCovering HeadsRiding MulesHairdreadlocks

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

Verse ConceptsCedarThe Mountains Of Israel

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

Verse ConceptsAs Far As The Euphrates

The Lord is God, and He has given us light [illuminating us with His grace and freedom and joy].Bind the festival sacrifices with cords to the horns of the altar.

Verse ConceptsHolidayHornsGod Giving LightSacrifice On The Bronze AltarBinding As AnimalsRegulating SacrificesThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

Verse ConceptsApplesbreastsbreath

Behold, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will lop off its boughs with terrifying power; the tallest in height will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Verse ConceptsCutting Off BranchesPutting Things Down

And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of an olive, Two -- three berries on the top of a branch, Four -- five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel!

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsTwo Or ThreeOlive Trees

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Verse ConceptsSympathyDullnessFirewoodGod Without Mercy

And it springeth up, and becometh a spreading vine, humble of stature, To turn its thin shoots toward itself, And its roots are under it, And it becometh a vine, and maketh boughs, And sendeth forth beauteous branches.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingSprouting PlantsSmall ThingsSproutingThose Subjected To People

In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

Verse ConceptsBearing Fruit

Thy mother is as a vine in thy blood by waters planted, Fruitful and full of boughs it hath been, Because of many waters.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualRivers And StreamsVineyardAbundance, MaterialWater For PlantsBearing Fruitfruitfulness

Strong were its boughs, suitable for use in the scepter of a ruler. It reached to the clouds, noticeable because of its height and its abundant branches.

Verse ConceptsHeightSceptreThings On High

And go forth doth fire from a rod of its boughs, Its fruit it hath devoured, And it hath no rod of strength -- a sceptre to rule, Lamentation it is -- and it is for a lamentation!'

Verse ConceptsSceptreBurning Plants

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfCedarPride, Examples OfTreesThings On High

Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingThings On High

All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

Verse ConceptsNestsAnimal ReproductionBirds

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

Verse ConceptsBeauty Of ThingsEclipsewaterfalls

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Verse ConceptsHeightSelf ExaltationThings On High

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFelling TreesAbandoning ThingsSuffering From ForeignersThings Falling

All the birds of the sky nested on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field were among its boughs.

To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsPitsSon Of ManGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableThings On HighWhy It Happened

The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialFoliageBearing Fruit

and its leaves are fair, and its budding great, and food for all is in it, under it dwell doth the beast of the field, and on its boughs sit do the birds of the heavens.

Verse ConceptsFoliageBearing Fruit

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אמיר 
'amiyr 
Usage: 2

חרשׁ 
Choresh 
Usage: 7

מקנה 
Miqnah 
Usage: 15

סנסן 
Cancin 
Usage: 1

סעפּה 
C@`appah 
Usage: 2

סרעפּה 
Car`appah 
Usage: 1

עבתה עבות עבת 
`aboth 
Usage: 24

ענף ענף 
`anaph (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

ענף 
`anaph 
Usage: 7

פּאר 
Pa'ar 
Usage: 14

פּארה פּראה פּארה 
P@'orah 
Usage: 8

פּרי 
P@riy 
Usage: 119

קציר 
Qatsiyr 
Usage: 54

שׂובך 
Sowbek 
Usage: 1

שׂוכה שׂוך 
Sowk 
Usage: 2

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