Leaf; Leaves:
lef, levz: Used in three different senses, with reference:
(1) To trees (aleh, "a coming up"), Ge 3:7; 8:11; Le 26:36 (Tereph); Eze 17:9; phullon. Figuratively
(a) of spiritual blessings (Eze 47:12; compare Re 22:2) and prosperity (Ps 1:3);
(b) of moral decay (Isa 64:6), and
(c) of a formal, empty profession (Mt 21:19).
(2) To a book (deleth), Jer 36:23 (margin "columns"; see 36:2); as the parchment was gradually unfolded the successive columns could be read.
(3) To doors (tsela, "side," qela,"a screen," "hanging"), 1Ki 6:34. The door of the Holy Place consisted of two halves, but each half had two leaves (compare Eze 41:24).
Written by M. O. Evans
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