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Strong's #1612: gephen (pronounced gheh'-fen)

from an unused root meaning to bend; a vine (as twining), especially the grape:--vine, tree.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gephen

1) vine, vine tree

1a) of Israel (figuratively)

1b) of stars fading at Jehovah' s judgment (metaphorically)

1c) of prosperity

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to bend



Usage:

This word is used 55 times:

Habakkuk 3:17: "blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive and the fields"
Haggai 2:19: "yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree,"
Zechariah 3:10: "every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree."
Zechariah 8:12: "For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give"
Malachi 3:11: "the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine in the field, saith the LORD"









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