H5158b H5158b
palm trees — the tall, spreading date palms characteristic of oasis landscapes
In Balaam's oracle blessing Israel, he describes their tents spread out like valleys—or according to this interpretation, like palm groves. The Arabic cognate clearly means palm trees, and the image of palms spreading their fronds fits the parallel of valleys extending. Palm trees symbolized fertility, prosperity, and oasis beauty in desert regions. The text may intentionally evoke both meanings: Israel spreads like wadis and like palm plantations.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — A proposed reading in Numbers 24:6 taking כִּנְחָלִים to mean 'like palm trees' rather than 'like wadis/valleys.' Arabic نَخْل (nakhl) clearly means 'palm tree,' and the imagery of palms spreading their foliage parallels 'gardens beside a river.' Some scholars see a double meaning: Israel is like both valleys (wadis) and palm groves—both suggesting expansion and fertility. Ben Sira 50:12 may allude to this when comparing priests to 'palm branches by a wadi.' 1×
AR["كَ-أَوْدِيَةٍ"]·ben["উপত্যকার-মতো"]·DE["wie-Taeler"]·EN["like-valleys"]·FR["comme-vallées"]·heb["כ-כנחלים"]·HI["नदियों-की-तरह"]·ID["seperti-lembah-lembah"]·IT["come-valli"]·jav["Kados-lèphen-lèphen"]·KO["같은-계곡들"]·PT["Como-vales"]·RU["как-ручьи"]·ES["Como-valles"]·SW["kama-mabonde"]·TR["vadiler-gibi"]·urd["جیسے-وادیاں"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
† II. [נַ֫חַל] n.[m.] perhaps palm-tree (Arabic نَخْلٌ, n. unit. نَخْلَةٌ; v. PerlesJQ, July, 1899, 688);— only pl. abs., כִּנְחָלִים נִטָּ֑יוּ Nu 24:6 like palm-trees, which are stretched out, spread out (as to foliage). So Perlesl.c., who compares כערבי נחל Ecclus 50:12, 𝔊 ὡς στελέχη φοινίκων.