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Branch ;Bough
62 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Genesis 40:10ISBE
And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
- Exodus 25:32ISBE
And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
- Exodus 37:18ISBE
And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:
- Numbers 13:23ISBE
And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Judges 9:48ISBE
And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye…
- Judges 9:49ISBE
And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- Job 8:16ISBE
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
- Job 14:7ISBE
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
- Job 14:9ISBE
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
- Job 15:32ISBE
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
- Psalms 80:11ISBE
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
- Isaiah 4:2ISBE
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
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- Isaiah 9:14 ISBE
- Isaiah 10:33 ISBE
- Isaiah 11:1 ISBE
- Isaiah 14:19 ISBE
- Isaiah 17:10 ISBE
- Isaiah 18:5 ISBE
- Isaiah 19:15 ISBE
- Isaiah 60:21 ISBE
- Jeremiah 11:16 ISBE
- Jeremiah 23:5 ISBE
- Jeremiah 33:15 ISBE
- Ezekiel 8:17 ISBE
- Ezekiel 15:2 ISBE
- Ezekiel 17:3 ISBE
- Ezekiel 17:6 ISBE
- Ezekiel 17:22 ISBE
- Ezekiel 19:11 ISBE
- Ezekiel 19:14 ISBE
- Ezekiel 31:3 ISBE
- Ezekiel 31:5 ISBE
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- Ezekiel 31:8 ISBE
- Ezekiel 36:8 ISBE
- Daniel 4:14 ISBE
- Daniel 4:21 ISBE
- Daniel 11:7 ISBE
- Hosea 14:6 ISBE
- Joel 1:7 ISBE
- Nahum 2:2 ISBE
- Zechariah 3:8 ISBE
- Zechariah 4:12 ISBE
- Zechariah 6:12 ISBE
- Malachi 4:1 ISBE
- Matthew 13:32 ISBE
- Matthew 21:8 ISBE
- Matthew 24:32 ISBE
- Mark 4:32 ISBE
- Mark 11:8 ISBE
- Mark 13:28 ISBE
- Luke 13:19 ISBE
- John 12:13 ISBE
- John 15:2 ISBE
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- Romans 11:16 ISBE
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In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 68 references
bransh: Represented by very many words in the Hebrew.
(1) zemorah used especially of a vine branch. The spies "cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes" (Nu 13:23). See also Eze 15:2; Na 2:2. "They put the branch to their nose" (Eze 8:17), refers to some unknown idolatrous practice, as does also Isa 17:10, "thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips," or "vine slips of a strange (god)" the Revised Version, margin.
(2) yoneqeth, literally "a sucker." "The tender branch thereof will not cease" (Job 14:7). Used figuratively of Israel, Ps 80:11 (the Revised Version (British and American) "shoots"); Eze 17:22 the King James Version; Ho 14:6, and of the wicked, Job 8:16 (the Revised Version (British and American) "shoots"), 15:30.
(3) kippah, Job 15:32. Isa 9:14; 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" (9:14).
(4) netser (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," Da 11:7), which may be planted out to grow (Isa 11:1; 60:21), or may be rooted out and thrown away (Isa 14:19).
(5) tsemach. The "branch" of Messianic prophecy. See PROPHECY. "In that day shall the branch (m "shoot" or "sprout") of Yahweh be beautiful and glorious" (Isa 4:2); "a shoot out of the stock of Jesse" (Isa 11:1); "a righteous branch" (Jer 23:5; 33:15): "my servant the Branch" (Zec 3:8); "the man whose name is the Branch" (Zec 6:12).
(6) qanah, is used for the "branches" of the golden candlesticks (Ex 25:32; 37:18 ff). Literally, qanah means a "reed." There are a number of words, less frequently used, meaning "branch":
(7) baddim (plural only used; Eze 17:6; 19:14).
(8) dalith (plural only used; Jer 11:16).
(9) maTTeh (Eze 19:11).
(10) ca`iph (Isa 18:5; ce`appah (plural) (Eze 31:6); car`appah (Eze 31:5)).
(11) `anaph (Mal 4:1; Ps 80:11); `anaph (Da 4:14,21); `eneph (Eze 36:8).
(12) pu'rah, "a bough" (Isa 10:33); po'roth (pl. only) (Eze 31:5,8).
(13) tsammereth, "foliage" or "boughs of trees," literally "locks" or "fleece" of trees (Eze 17:3; 31:3).
(14) qatsir (collective) (Job 14:9), "boughs" (Ps 80:11), "branches."
(15) shibbeleth, the two olive branches of Zec 4:12.
(16) soqch, root meaning "to interweave" (Jud 9:49); sokhah (Jud 9:48), "boughs."
(17) sarigh (pl. only, sarighim), "branches" (of the vine) (Ge 40:10; Joe 1:7). Represented in Greek in the New Testament:
(1) baion (Joh 12:13), "a palm branch."
(2) klados (Mt 13:32; 21:8; 24:32; Mr 4:32; 13:28; Lu 13:19; Ro 11:16,17,18,19,21).
(3) klema, a slip or cutting of the vine, especially one cut off to be grafted into another plant (Joh 15:2,4,5,6).
(4) stibos (= stoibas), a "twig" or "bough" (Mr 11:8).
E. W. G. Masterman
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.