H0035 H0035
caper berry, fruit used as aphrodisiac or stimulant
The caper berry, a small fruit from the caper plant (Capparis spinosa), believed to stimulate appetite or desire. Ecclesiastes 12:5 uses this image in a poetic description of old age: 'the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry fails.' If the caper was valued as a stimulant or aphrodisiac, its failure symbolizes the loss of vitality and desire in advanced age, completing the chapter's vivid allegory of bodily decline.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — The caper berry or caper-bud, possibly valued as an appetite or desire stimulant. In Ecclesiastes 12:5, 'the caper berry fails' within an extended metaphor of aging and death. Its failure likely represents the loss of appetite, vitality, or sexual desire—another sign that the body's systems are shutting down before death. 1×
AR["هَ-أَبِيُّونَه"]·ben["ছোট-ফল"]·DE["[האביונה]"]·EN["the-caper-berry"]·FR["le-האביונה"]·heb["ה-אביונה"]·HI["केपर"]·ID["buah-kapri"]·IT["il-il-caper-berry"]·jav["kasengseman"]·KO["열매-그"]·PT["a-alcaparra"]·RU["каперс;"]·ES["la-alcaparra"]·SW["tamaa"]·TR["istek"]·urd["خواہش"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
† אֲבִיּוֹנָה n.f. caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ec 12:5 (v. GFMJBL 1891, 55 ff.; so 𝔊 𝔙, Mish. אביונות, cf. NHWB; v. also 𝔖 i.e. capparis spinosa, cf. RiHWB; so Thes, Ew De, etc.; but Wetzst in De (Germ. ed. 1875) proposes אֶבְיוֹנָה (as fem. of אביון) the poor soul in sense = נִשְׁמָתוֹ הָאֶבְיוֹנָה cf. Symm 𝔖, where double translation).