King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H35
Transliteration: abiyyonah
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-yo-naw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: the caperberry
Meaning: provocative of desire, the caper berry
Word Summary
abiyyonah: the caperberry
Original Word: אֲבִיּוֹנָהTransliteration: abiyyonah
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-yo-naw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: the caperberry
Meaning: provocative of desire, the caper berry
Strong's Concordance
desire From 'abah; provocative of desire; the caper berry (from its stimulative taste) -- desire.
see HEBREW 'abah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H35. abiyyonah
אֲבִיּוֺנָה noun feminine caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ecclesiastes 12:5 (see GFMJBL 1891, 55 ff.; so ᵑ9 ᵐ5, Mishna אביונות, compare NHWB; see also ᵑ6; i.e. capparis spinosa, compare RiHWB; so Thes, Ew De, etc.; but Wetzst in De (German ed. 1875) proposes אֶבְיוֺנָה (as feminine of אביון) the poor soul in sense = הָאֶבְיוֺנָה נִשְׁמָתוֺ compare Symm ᵑ6, where double translation).