ʻarmôwn — H6196

Definition

masculine noun

the plane tree (from its smooth and shed bark)

1. plane-tree
1. as stripped of bark

Usually translated as

chestnut tree

Origin

probably from H6191

• ʻâram (H6191)

Occurrences

ʻarmôwn occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Genesis 30:37 — And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree (וְעֶרְמ֑וֹן); and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
• Ezekiel 31:8 — The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees (וְעַרְמֹנִ֥ים) were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.