Leaf; Leaves

lef, levz: Used in three different senses, with reference:

(1) To trees (`aleh, "a coming up"), Gen 3:7; Gen 8:11; Lev 26:36 (Tereph); Ezek 17:9; phullon. Figuratively

(a) of spiritual blessings (Ezek 47:12; compare Rev 22:2) and prosperity (Ps 1:3);

(b) of moral decay (Isa 64:6), and

(c) of a formal, empty profession (Matt 21:19).

(2) To a book (deleth), Jer 36:23 (margin "columns"; see 36:2); as the parchment was gradually unfolded the successive columns could be read.

(3) To doors (tsela`, "side," qela`,"a screen," "hanging"), 1 Kgs 6:34. The door of the Holy Place consisted of two halves, but each half had two leaves (compare Ezek 41:24).

M. O. Evans