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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #8247 - שָׁקֵד
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) almond tree, almonds
1a) almond (the nut)
1b) almond-tree
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2872) dqs (סהקד ShQD) AC: Watch CO: Eye AB: ?: Eyes open wide for watching carefully. [from: os]
V) dqs (סהקד ShQD) - Watch: To be alert and watchful. KJV (18): (vf: Pual, Participle) watch, wake, remain, hasten, almond - Strongs: H8245 (שָׁקַד), H8246 (מְשֻׁקָּד)
Nm) dqs (סהקד ShQD) - Almond: From its shape like an open eye. The nut or the tree. KJV (4): almond - Strongs: H8247 (שָׁקֵד)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, 
, whence Ethiopic 
compare Nö M 39; compare Löw No. 319); — 1 almond, i.e. the nut, plural שְׁקֵדִים Genesis 43:11 (J; +בָּטְנִים, etc.), Numbers 17:23 (P).
2 almond-tree Jeremiah 1:11 and (probably) Ecclesiastes 12:5.
שָׁקֵד m
(1) the almond tree; so called because of all trees it is the first to arouse and awake from the sleep of winter, Jeremiah 1:11 (where allusion is made to the signification of haste and ardour, which there is in this root).
(2) an almond, the nut of the almond, Genesis 43:11 Numbers 17:23 Ecclesiastes 12:5, יָנֵאץ שָׁקֵד “the almond is rejected” (by the old man who has no teeth), although really a delicate and delicious fruit. Others incorrectly, “the almond flourishes,” which they refer to whiteness of hair; but the flower of the almond is not hoary, but rose-coloured. See Cels. Hierob. i. p. 297.
