se.ap.pah denotes the tree’s branching growth, where birds nest, animals shelter, and its beauty is compared.

The term refers to a tree’s branching growth: in the supplied verses it provides places for birds and beasts and is a feature by which the tree’s beauty is compared.

1. Tree branches as shelter and a feature of beauty · dominant

   Both occurrences are feminine plural construct forms. In Ezekiel 31:6 the APB renders the clause "All the birds of the heavens nested in its boughs" and places beasts beneath them; in Ezekiel 31:8 it renders the tree’s branches as the point of comparison with cypresses and plane trees.

   Ezekiel 31:6Ezekiel 31:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "boughs" in both verses, in contexts of shelter in Ezekiel 31:6 and comparison in Ezekiel 31:8. This rendering is confirmed by the clauses rather than treated as a precise lexical equation.