Strong's #8247: shaqed (pronounced shaw-kade')

from 8245; the almond (tree or nut; as being the earliest in bloom):--almond (tree).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâqêd

1) almond tree, almonds

1a) almond (the nut)

1b) almond-tree

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H8245

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Genesis 43:11: "honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:"
Numbers 17:8: "buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds."
Ecclesiastes 12:5: "of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden,"
Jeremiah 1:11: "I see a rod of an almond tree."