fruit
te.nu.vah denotes the yield of fields or trees, and in Isaiah’s image, Israel’s world-filling fruit.
The term most often occurs for agricultural yield in clauses about the field, a tree, or a fig tree’s produce; Isaiah 27:6 uses it in the image of Israel blossoming and filling the world with fruit.
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Agricultural yield from fields and trees · dominant
Construct forms occur in provisions and loss connected with cultivated produce: in Deuteronomy 32:13 the APB renders the clause “he ate the fruit of the field,” while Ezekiel 36:30 speaks of the tree’s fruit and the field’s produce becoming abundant. In Judges 9:11 the fig tree declines to leave its “good fruit,” and Lamentations 4:9 places the fruits of the field in a famine setting.
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Fruit in an image of Israel’s flourishing · rare
In Isaiah 27:6, the absolute singular follows the image of Jacob taking root and Israel blossoming and sprouting; the APB renders the result as filling “the face of the world with fruit.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding clauses with “fruit of the field,” “fruit of the tree,” “produce of the field,” “good fruit,” and “fruit.” These renderings show the clauses’ agricultural and figurative imagery rather than establishing a separate English equivalent in each verse.