Topic
Leaf, Leaves
15 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Kings 6:34Smith · ISBE
And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
- Jeremiah 36:23Smith · ISBE
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
- Genesis 3:7ISBE
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 8:11ISBE
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Leviticus 26:36ISBE
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
- 1 Kings 6:32Smith
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
- Psalms 1:3ISBE
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
- Isaiah 1:30Smith
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
- Isaiah 64:6ISBE
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
- Jeremiah 17:8Smith
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
- Ezekiel 17:9ISBE
Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots…
- Ezekiel 41:24ISBE
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
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- Ezekiel 47:12 ISBE
- Matthew 21:19 ISBE
- Revelation 22:2 ISBE
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 5 references
- Leaf of a tree. The righteous are often compared to green leaves. (Jeremiah 17:8) The ungodly, on the other hand, are "as an oak whose leaf fadeth." (Isaiah 1:30)
- Leaves of doors. The hebrew word, which occurs very many times in the Bible, and which in (1 Kings 6:32) (margin) and 1Kin 6:34 Is translated "leaves" in the Authorized Version, signifies beams, ribs, sides, etc.
- Leaves of a book or roll occurs in this sense only in (Jeremiah 36:23) The Hebrew word (literally doors) would perhaps be more correctly translated columns.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 13 references
lef, levz: Used in three different senses, with reference:
(1) To trees (`aleh, "a coming up"), Ge 3:7; 8:11; Le 26:36 (Tereph); Eze 17:9; phullon. Figuratively
(a) of spiritual blessings (Eze 47:12; compare Re 22:2) and prosperity (Ps 1:3);
(b) of moral decay (Isa 64:6), and
(c) of a formal, empty profession (Mt 21:19).
(2) To a book (deleth), Jer 36:23 (margin "columns"; see 36:2); as the parchment was gradually unfolded the successive columns could be read.
(3) To doors (tsela`, "side," qela`,"a screen," "hanging"), 1Ki 6:34. The door of the Holy Place consisted of two halves, but each half had two leaves (compare Eze 41:24).
M. O. Evans
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); 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.