lef, levz: Used in three different senses, with reference:
(1) To trees (`aleh, "a coming up"),Ge 3:7;8:11;Le 26:36(Tereph);Eze 17:9; phullon. Figuratively
(a) of spiritual blessings (Eze 47:12; compareRe 22:2) and prosperity (Ps 1:3);
(b) of moral decay (Isa 64:6), and
(c) of a formal, empty profession (Mt 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"),1Ki 6:34. The door of the Holy Place consisted of two halves, but each half had two leaves (compareEze 41:24).
M. O. Evans