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H35 אֲבִיּוֹנָה (ʼăbîyôwnâh) ab-ee-yo-naw'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 14; provocative of desire; the caper berry (from its stimulative taste)

KJV Usage: desire

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

אֲבִיּוֹנָה (a.viy.yo.nah) — desire. caper-berry-of stimulating desire

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun f · אבה

Plants

caper berry = plant with heavy, drooping branches; blooms in May and its large white flowers are open for only one night; ◄ Capparis Spinosa; ► its buds are pickled in vinegar and eaten as a condiment with meat; both fruit and buds are supposed to stimulate appetite; ≈ the eating of the fruit of this plant was believed to stimulate one's sexual desire

ECC 12:5

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֲבִיּוֹנָה n.f. caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ec 12:5 (v. GFM JBL 1891, 55 ff.; so 𝔊 𝔙, Mish. אביונות, cf. NHWB; v. also 𝔖; i.e. capparis spinosa, cf. Ri HWB; so Thes, Ew De, etc.; but Wetzst in De (Germ. ed. 1875) proposes אֶבְיוֹנָה (as fem. of אביון) the poor soul in sense = נִשְׁמָתוֹ הָאֶבְיוֹנָה cf. Symm 𝔖, where double translation). done

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