Lexical Summary babah: the apple (of the eye) Original Word: בָּבָהTransliteration: babah Phonetic Spelling: (baw-baw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: the apple (of the eye) Meaning: something hollowed, pupil of the eye Strong's Concordance apple of the eye Feminine active participle of an unused root meaning to hollow out; something hollowed (as a gate), i.e. Pupil of the eye -- apple (of the eye). Brown-Driver-Briggs H892. babah [בָּבָה] noun feminine only עֵינוֺ בָּבַת Zechariah 2:12 the apple of his eye (Aramaic ; בָּבָא gate ᵑ7 Esther 5:14; Thes below נבב to which Ges gives sense perforate, hence opening of eye; but compare Arabic pupil of eye, perhaps = Dozy49 babe, baby, bébé (imitating infant's prattle) i.e. child of the eye; see Hi St, Fl in ChWBi. 419 b; compare אישׁוֺן ?). |
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