Lexical Definition

‎יוֹנֶקֶת‎ yôwneqeth (yo-neh'-keth) shoot ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎יוֹנֵק‎

(tender) branch, young twig.

• a sprout

1) young plant, twig, young shoot

See Greek: κλάδος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎יוֺנֶ֫קֶת‎] noun feminine young shoot, twig (= foregoing) — ‎יוֺנַקְתּוֺ‎ Job 8:16 + 2 t.; ‎יוֺנְקוֺתָיו‎ Hos 14:7* ‎יֹנְקוֺתָיו‎ Ezek 17:22 ‎יוֺנְקוֺתֶיהָ‎ Ps 80:12* — shoot, twig, of tree Job 14:7 cf wicked under figure of tree Job 8:16; Job 15:30 Israel under figure of olive-tree Hos 14:7*, of cedar Ezek 17:22, of vine Ps 80:12*.

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