Lexical Definition

‎אֲבִיּוֹנָה‎ ʼăbîyôwnâh (ab-ee-yo-naw') desire ^H:N-F
from ‎אָבָה‎

desire.

• provocative of desire
• the caper berry (from its stimulative taste)

1) caper-berry-of stimulating desire

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אֲבִיּוֺנָה‎ noun feminine caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Eccl 12:5 (see GFM^{JBL 1891, 55 ff.}; so ᵐ5 ᵑ9, Mishna ‎אביונות‎, compare NHWB; see also ᵑ6; i.e. capparis spinosa, compare Ri^HWB; so Thes, Ew De, etc.; but Wetzst in De (German ed. 1875) proposes ‎אֶבְיוֺנָה‎ (as feminine of ‎אביון‎) the poor soul in sense = ‎נִשְׁמָתוֺ הָאֶבְיוֺנָה‎ compare Symm ᵑ6, where double translation).

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