H2150 H2150
Tendrils (of a vine); slender shoots symbolizing vulnerable enemies (Isaiah 18:5)
This noun appears only in Isaiah 18:5, describing vine tendrils in a metaphor about God cutting down Assyria. The imagery is agricultural: before the grape harvest, when tendrils are forming, the vinedresser prunes. So Yahweh will cut off Assyria's spreading power before it fully matures. The pairing with 'spreading branches' creates a vivid picture of vulnerability—what seems to be growing and expanding is actually about to be severed. The term captures delicate, vulnerable growth.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Vine tendrils in Isaiah 18:5, used metaphorically for Assyria's spreading but vulnerable power that God will prune. The parallel with 'spreading branches' and the agricultural context of pre-harvest pruning establish imagery of growth cut short. Spanish 'ramitas' (little branches) captures the diminutive vulnerability of tendrils about to be severed. 1×
AR["القُضْبَانَ"]·ben["-প্রশাখা"]·DE["[הזלזלים]"]·EN["the-tendrils"]·FR["[הזלזלים]"]·heb["ה-זלזלים"]·HI["टहनियाँ"]·ID["ranting-ranting"]·IT["[הזלזלים]"]·jav["pang-pang"]·KO["덕굴손들을"]·PT["os-raminhos"]·RU["побеги"]·ES["las-ramitas"]·SW["matawi"]·TR["salkimlari"]·urd["بیلوں-کو"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [זַלְזַל] n.[m.] (quivering) tendrils;—only pl. tendrils of vine הַזַּלְזַלִּים Is 18:5 (‖ הַנְּטִישׁוֹת), in fig. of Yahweh’s destroying the Assyrians.