Dict: smith - LEAF, LEAVES

smith:

LEAF, LEAVES - L>@ - The word occurs in the Authorized Version either in singular or plural number in three different senses. Leaf of a tree. The righteous are often compared to green leaves. kjv@Jeremiah:17:8) The ungodly, on the other hand, are "as an oak whose leaf fadeth." kjv@Isaiah:1:30) Leaves of doors. The hebrew word, which occurs very many times in the Bible, and which in (Kings:6:32) (margin) and 1Kin 6:34 Is translated "leaves" in the Authorized Version, signifies beams, ribs, sides, etc. Leaves of a book or roll occurs in this sense only in kjv@Jeremiah:36:23) The Hebrew word (literally doors) would perhaps be more correctly translated columns.