STRONGS NUMBER H6073


Word Summary
ophe: branch
Original Word: עֱפֶא
Transliteration: ophe
Phonetic Spelling: (of-eh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: branch
Meaning: a bough
Strong's Concordance
branch

From an unused root meaning to cover; a bough (as covering the tree) -- branch.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6073. ophe

עפאים‎ Kt, עֳפָיִם‎ Qr noun [masculine] plural foliage (compare Ges§ 93z; Aramaic loan-word, עָפְיָא ᵑ7foliage, Syriac flower, branch); — Psalm 104:12.

עפא‎ (√ of following; עֲפָא ᵑ7‎ Pa., Syriac Pa., enwrap, עֳפִיfoliage, flower, etc., Biblical Hebrew עֳפָיִם עפאים,‎ as loan-word; compare perhaps Assyrian upû, cloud (-mass)).