H8246 · שָׁקַד
shâqad · shaw-kad' · almond-shaped
H8246 (shâqad, pronounced shaw-kad') is the Hebrew word שָׁקַד in Strong’s dictionary: to be (intensively, make) almond-shaped. It appears 6 times in 4 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- שָׁקַד (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- shâqad
- Pronunciation
- shaw-kad'
- Derivation
- a denominative from H8247 (שָׁקֵד);
- Definition
- to be (intensively, make) almond-shaped
- Rendered in the KJV
- make like (unto, after the fashion of) almonds.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
6 occurrences in 4 verses (4 with English words of their own, 2 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “shaped like almond blossoms” ×4
By book
Exodus 4
Verses
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H8246.