1. (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

2. (n.) The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).

CAPERBERRY

ka'-per-ber-i ('abhiyonah; kapparis; Ecclesiastes 12:5 the Revised Version, margin): The translation "the caperberry shall fail" (the Revised Version (British and American) "burst") instead of "desire shall fail" (the King James Version) has the support of the Septuagint and of some Talmudic writers (see G. F. Moore, JBL, X, 55-64), but it is doubtful.

The caperberry is the fruit of the thorny caper, Capparis spinosa (Natural Order Capparidaceae), a common Palestine plant with pretty white flowers and brightly colored stamens. Largely on account of its habit of growing out of crevasses in old walls it has been identified by some with the HYSSOP (which see). The familiar "capers" of commerce are the young buds, but the berries were the parts most used in ancient times; their repute as excitants of sexual desire is ancient and widespread. Various parts of this plant are still used for medical purposes by the modern peasants of Palestine.

E. W. G. Masterman

35. abiyyonah -- the caperberry
... 34, 35. abiyyonah. 36 . the caperberry. Transliteration: abiyyonah Phonetic
Spelling: (ab-ee-yo-naw') Short Definition: caperberry. ...
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Life as a Joy Shadowed by the Judgment
... And terrors shall be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the
grasshopper shall be a burden, And the caperberry shall burst: ...
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Notes
... what the gait of a person terrified is for other reasons."The almond tree shall
blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and the caperberry shall burst ...
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Caperberry (1 Occurrence)
... sodado). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CAPERBERRY. ka ... Palestine. EWG Masterman.
Multi-Version Concordance Caperberry (1 Occurrence). Ecclesiastes ...
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Capacity (5 Occurrences)

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Desire (565 Occurrences)
... rendered to the kingdom. For "desire" in Ecclesiastes 12:5, see CAPERBERRY.
AL Breslich. DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS. This phrase occurs ...
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Drags (5 Occurrences)
... which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom,
and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail ...
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Medicine (4 Occurrences)
... "Balm of Gilead" is said to be an anodyne (Jeremiah 8:22; compare Jeremiah 51:8).
The love-fruits, "mandrakes" (Genesis 30:14) and "caperberry" (Ecclesiastes 12 ...
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Blossoms (16 Occurrences)
... which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom,
and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail ...
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Caper-berry (1 Occurrence)
Caper-berry. Caperberry, Caper-berry. Capernaum . Multi-Version Concordance
Caper-berry (1 Occurrence). ... Caperberry, Caper-berry. Capernaum . Reference
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Fails (35 Occurrences)
... which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom,
and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail ...
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Food (2953 Occurrences)
... As to condiments (see separate articles on SALT; CORIANDER, etc.) it needs only
to be said here that the caperberry (Ecclesiastes 12:5 margin) was eaten before ...
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Caperberry (1 Occurrence)

Ecclesiastes 12:5 yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors'shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
(See JPS NAS)

Caperberry

Capacity (5 Occurrences)

Desire (565 Occurrences)

Drags (5 Occurrences)

Medicine (4 Occurrences)

Blossoms (16 Occurrences)

Caper-berry (1 Occurrence)

Fails (35 Occurrences)

Food (2953 Occurrences)

Botany

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