Prune
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Leviticus 25:3
- Last Reference: Leviticus 25:4
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2168 Used 2 times
PRU'NE, verb transitive
1. To lop or cut off the superfluous branches of trees, to make them bear better fruit or grow higher, or to give them a more handsome and regular appearance.
2. To clear from any thing superfluous; to dress; to trim.
His royal bird
Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his beak.
PRUNE, verb intransitive To dress; to prink; a ludicrous word.
PRUNE, noun [Latin prunum; in Latin prunus is a plum tree; Gr. the fruit.] A plum, or a dried plum.
PRU'NED, participle passive Divested of superfluous branches; trimmed.
1. Cleared of what is unsuitable or superfluous.
PRU'NEL, noun A plant.
PRUNEL'LO, noun A kind of stuff of which clergymen's gowns are made.
PRUNEL'LO, noun A kind of plum.
PRU'NER, noun One that prunes trees or removes what is superfluous.