| Easton's Bible Dictionary (1.) A bundle of twigs (Exodus 12:22). (2.) Bunch or cake of raisins (2 Samuel 16:1). (3.) The "bunch of a camel" (Isaiah 30:6). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. 2. (n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys. 3. (n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. 4. (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round. 5. (v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia BUNCH bunsh: Is used of
(1) a "bunch of hyssop" (Exodus 12:22, 'aghuddah);
(2) a "cluster of raisins" (2 Samuel 16:1 the King James Version; 1 Chronicles 12:40 the King James Version tsimmuq = "something dried or shriveled");
(3) a "camel's hump" (Isaiah 30:6 the King James Version dabbesheth): of obscure etymology. |  | Multi-Version Concordance Bunch (6 Occurrences) Matthew 7:16 By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs? (DBY) Luke 6:44 Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes. (WEY) Exodus 12:22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Numbers 13:23 And they came as far as the valley of Eshcol, and cut down thence a branch with one bunch of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a pole; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. (DBY) 1 Samuel 30:12 and give to him a piece of a bunch of dried figs, and two bunches of raisins, and he eateth, and his spirit returneth unto him, for he hath not eaten bread nor drunk water three days and three nights. (YLT) Isaiah 38:21 And Isaiah saith, 'Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.' (YLT) |
