STRONGS NUMBER H8384


Word Summary
teenah: fig tree
Original Word: תְּאֵן
Transliteration: teenah
Phonetic Spelling: (teh-ane')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: fig tree
Meaning: of foreign derivation, the fig
Strong's Concordance
Tahtim-hodshi

From 'aven; naughtiness, i.e. Toil -- lie.

see HEBREW 'aven

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8384. teenah

תְּאֵנָהnoun feminine fig-tree, (then) fig (√ dubious; Arabic , Aramaic תֵּינְתָא‎, ; perhaps Punic תין‎ (see Lzb385; i.e. תְּיֵן‎ Eut, see DHMVOJ i. 26), Assyrian tittu, a tree; LagM i. 58 ff. combines ׳ת‎ (precariously) with √ (III) אנהmeet opportunely, with reference to fructifying of fig by another tree, compare HomAufsätze u.Abh. i. (1892), 100); — absolute ׳תJudges 9:10 +; suffix תְּאֵנָתוֺ1 Kings 5:5 +, etc.; plural תְּאֵנִיםNumbers 13:23 +; construct תְּאֵנֵיJeremiah 24:2; suffix תְּאֵנֵיכֶםAmos 4:9; —

1 fig-tree (ficus carica PostFlora. 730; Hast. DB, under the word TrNHB.350 M'Lean-Th-DyerEncy. Bib., under the word; compare Löw§ 335; often + גֶּפֶן‎): Judges 9:10-11, (in allegory), Amos 4:9; Hosea 9:10; Nahum 3:12; 1 Kings 5:5; 2 Kings 18:31 = Isaiah 36:16; Micah 4:4; Isaiah 34:4; Proverbs 27:18; ת ׳עֲלֵהGenesis 3:7 (J) fig-leaves, ׳הַתּ פַגֶּיהָ חָֽנְטָהSong of Solomon 2:13; collective Numbers 20:5 (JE), Hosea 2:14; Jeremiah 5:17; 8:13; Deuteronomy 8:8; Habakkuk 3:17; Haggai 2:19; Zechariah 3:10; Joel 1:7, 12; 2:22; Psalm 105:33.

2 fig, always plural: Numbers 13:23 (JE), Jeremiah 24:1-2,(twice in verse); 24:3 (twice in verse); 24:5, 8; 29:17 (all symbolic of Judaeans), 8:13 (תּ ׳אֵין בַּתְּאֵנָה‎), Nehemiah 8:13; as medicament, ת ׳דְּבֶלֶת2 Kings 20:7 = Isaiah 38:21; הַבַּכֻּרוֺת תְּאֵנֵיJeremiah 24:2 the figs of early ripeness (compare Du).

תַּאֲנִיָּה‎ see [I. אנה‎]. תְּאֻנִים‎ see I. און‎.