אגוז

Hebrew
Root
א־ג־ז (ʾ-g-z)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic גּוֹזָא (gōzā), אמגוזא, from unattested Old Persian *angauza, see Old Armenian ընկոյզ (ənkoyz) for more.

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Noun

אֱגוֹז • ('egóz) m (plural indefinite אֱגוֹזִים, singular construct אֱגוֹז־)

  1. walnut
    • Tanach, Song of Songs 6:11, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
      אֶל־גִּנַּת אֱגוֹז יָרַדְתִּי, לִרְאוֹת בְּאִבֵּי הַנָּחַל; לִרְאוֹת הֲפָרְחָה הַגֶּפֶן, הֵנֵצוּ הָרִמֹּנִים.
      el-ginnát egóz yarádti, lir.ót bəibḗ han-náḥal; lir.ot hă-farḥá hag-géfen, henétsu ha-rimmoním.
      I went down into the garden of nuts, to look at the green plants of the valley; to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.
  2. nut (hard-shelled seed)

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References
  • Hehn, Victor with Schrader, Otto (1911) Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere in ihrem Übergang aus Asien nach Griechenland und Italien sowie in das übrige Europa‎ (in German), 8th edition, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, pages 393–404
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 29–59
  • Wagner, Max (1966) Die lexikalischen und grammatikalischen Aramaismen im alttestamentlichen Hebräisch (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 96) (in German), Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, →ISBN, page 18
  • H93 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • “אגוז” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

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