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Lexicon :: Strong's H6086 - ʿēṣ

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עֵץ
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ʿēṣ
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TWOT Reference: 1670a

Strong’s Definitions

עֵץ ʻêts, ates; from H6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks):— carpenter, gallows, helve, pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 328x

The KJV translates Strong's H6086 in the following manner: tree (162x), wood (107x), timber (23x), stick (14x), gallows (8x), staff (4x), stock (4x), carpenter (with H2796) (2x), branches (1x), helve (1x), planks (1x), stalks (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 328x
The KJV translates Strong's H6086 in the following manner: tree (162x), wood (107x), timber (23x), stick (14x), gallows (8x), staff (4x), stock (4x), carpenter (with H2796) (2x), branches (1x), helve (1x), planks (1x), stalks (1x).
  1. tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows

    1. tree, trees

    2. wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵץ ʻêts, ates; from H6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks):— carpenter, gallows, helve, pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
STRONGS H6086: Abbreviations
עֵץ 329 noun masculineGenesis 2:9 tree, trees, wood; — ע׳ absolute Genesis 3:3 +, construct Genesis 3:24 +, עֵץֿ Genesis 2:16 +; suffix עֵֽצְךָ Deuteronomy 28:42, etc.; plural עֵצִים Judges 9:8 +, construct עֲצֵי Isaiah 7:2 +, suffix עֵצֶיךָ Deuteronomy 29:10, עֵצֵינוּ Lamentations 5:4, etc.; —
1. (approximately + 150 times)
a. a standing tree Genesis 18:4, 8 (J) +, Exodus 15:25 (J; of shrub ?), Jeremiah 17:18 = Psalm 1:3 (simile); to be felled Deuteronomy 19:5; 2 Kings 6:6; הָעֵצִים (apparently including vine and bramble) in allegory Judges 9:8 + 6 times Judges 9; עֵץ הַחַיִּים Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:22, 24 (J), compare חַיִּים ע׳ figurative of source of (life and) happiness Proverbs 3:18; Proverbs 11:30; Proverbs 13:12; Proverbs 15:4; הַדַּעַת טוֺב וָדָע ע׳ Genesis 2:9, 16 (J); עֲצֵי (ה)יַעַר Isaiah 7:2 (simile), Isaiah 44:14; Ezekiel 15:2 +; עֲצֵי הַשָּׂדֶה Isaiah 55:12; Ezekiel 17:24 (figurative), +; עֲצֵי לְבָנוֺן 2 Chronicles 2:7; עֲצֵימַֿיִם Ezekiel 31:14; עֲצֵי י׳ Psalm 104:16; עֲצֵי עֵדֶןEzekiel 31:9, 16, 18 (twice in verse); עֲצֵי לְבוֺנָה Songs 4:14; of vine עֵץ הַגֶּפֶןEzekiel 15:2, 6; תַּחַת כָּלעֵֿץ רַעֲנָ֑ן place of illicit worship † Deuteronomy 12:2; Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 3:6, 13; 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4; 2 Kings 17:10; Ezekiel 6:13; Isaiah 57:5; 2 Chronicles 28:4, compare עַלעֵֿץ רַעֲנָן Jeremiah 17:2; כָּלעַֿץ עָבֹת Ezekiel 20:28.
b. collective trees, עֵץהַֿגָּן Genesis 2:16; Genesis 3:1, 2, 8 (all J); usually later, י׳ Genesis 1:12, 29 (twice in verse) (P), +; פְּרִי פְּרִיעֵץ fruittrees Genesis 1:11 (P), Psalm 148:9, compare Ecclesiastes 2:5, עֵץ פְּרִי Exodus 10:15 (J), Ezekiel 36:30; Leviticus 23:40 (H), compare Joel 2:22; עֵץמַֿאֲכָל Deuteronomy 20:20; Leviticus 19:23 (H), Ezekiel 47:12; Nehemiah 9:25; עֵץ הַזַּיִת Haggai 2:19 olive trees, עֵץ שֶׁמֶן Nehemiah 8:15, עֵץשָֿׁ֑מֶן Isaiah 41:19; סֲבָחעֵֿץ Psalm 74:5 thicket of trees; עֵץ הַשָּׂרֶה Exodus 9:25 (J), +; עֵץ הַיַּעַרEzekiel 15:6, compare Isaiah 10:19; Isaiah 44:23; כִּימֵי הָעֵץ Isaiah 65:22 (simile of great age).
c. plural of trees felled for building, 1 Kings 5:20 [1 Kings 5:6]; 1 Kings 5:32 [1 Kings 5:32] (+ אֲבָנִים); עֲצֵי אֲרָזִים 2 Samuel 5:11 = 1 Chronicles 14:1 + 7 times; עֲצֵי בְרוֺשִׁים Jeremiah 52:22, 24; Jeremiah 9:11; (אַלְגּ׳) אַלְמֻגִּים עֲצֵי, see אַלְגּ׳ above.
2. (approximately 175 times; with approximately 120 times plural, to denote pieces [or articles] of wood).
a. wood, as material; for building, 2 Kings 12:13 (+ אַבְנֵי מַתְצֵב), 2 Kings 22:6 2 Chronicles 34:11 (both + id.), Nehemiah 2:8 +; עֲצֵי שָׁ֑מֶן 1 Kings 6:23, 31, 33 compare 1 Kings 6:32; עֲצֵיגֹּֿפֶר Genesis 6:14 (Noah's ark), עֲצֵי שִׁטִּים Exodus 25:5, 10 + 20 times Exodus (of tabernacle and its furniture; all P) Deuteronomy 10:3; מִגְדַּלעֵֿץ Nehemiah 8:4; מוֺטִת עֵץ Jeremiah 28:13 (in figurative; opposed to בַּרְזֶל מ׳); כְּלִיעֵֿץ article of wood Leviticus 11:32; Leviticus 15:12; Numbers 31:20, compare Numbers 35:18 (all P). Hence
b. עֵצִים = articles of wood Exodus 7:19 (P; || אֲבָנִים), 1 Chronicles 29:2; so עֲצֵי בְרוֺשִׁים 2 Samuel 6:5 (but see בְּרוֺשׁ near the end); specifically הָעֵץ = helve of axe Deuteronomy 19:5; (וֹ)חֲנִית עֵץ 1 Samuel 17:7 Qr (Kt חֵץ) = 1 Chronicles 20:5; 2 Samuel 21:19; 2 Samuel 23:7; עֲצֵי הָעֲגָלָה 1 Samuel 6:14 (i.e. wood of which cart was made), עֲצֵי הָאֲשֵׁרָה Judges 6:26; especially timbers of a house Zechariah 5:4; Habakkuk 2:11; Leviticus 14:45, of a city 1 Kings 15:22 2 Chronicles 16:5; Ezekiel 26:12; עֵץ of pole on which bodies of slain (criminals and others) were exposed (perhaps originally trees) Genesis 40:19 (E), Joshua 8:29 (twice in verse); Joshua 10:26 (twice in verse); Joshua 10:27 (all J E), Deuteronomy 21:22, 23; late (in Persian) used for executing criminals (? by hanging = gallows), תָּלָח עַלעֵֿץ Esther 2:23 + 8 times Esther.
† c. of idols, עֵץ וָאֶבֶן Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 28:36, 64; Deuteronomy 29:16; 2 Kings 19:18 = Isaiah 37:19; Ezekiel 20:32, compare Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 3:9; Habakkuk 2:19; so עֵץ alone Hosea 4:12; Isaiah 40:20, of.Isaiah 44:19; Isaiah 45:20; אֲשֵׁרָה כָּלעֵֿץ Deuteronomy 16:21.
d. (fire-)wood Joshua 9:23, 27 (J), Joshua 9:21 (P), Deuteronomy 19:5; Isaiah 30:33 +, read עֵצִים also Ezekiel 24:5 (for MT עצמים) Bö Ew Sm Co Berthol Toy; especially for sacrifices 1 Kings 18:23 (twice in verse) +, Genesis 22:7, 9 (twice in verse); Leviticus 1:7 + 6 times Leviticus (all P), 2 Samuel 24:22 || 1 Chronicles 21:23, +; עֲצֵי עוֺלָה Genesis 22:3, 6 (P).
e. עֵץ (הָ)אֶרֶז cedar-wood, used in purifications Leviticus 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52; Numbers 19:6 (all P).
f. הָעֵץ פִּשְׁתֵּי Joshua 2:6 woody-flax, i.e. flax on the stalk. — Jeremiah 10:8 Gie proposes הֶבֶל מֹעֲצֹתָו for MT הֲבָלִים עִץ הוּא. — מֹאֶסֶת כָּלעֵֿץ Ezekiel 21:15 is dubious, Sm proposes מָאֵסְתָּ כָלעֵֿץ, Co מֹאֲסֵי כָלעֹֿז, Berthol וּמְנַסֵּף כָּלעַֿז; SiegfKau Toy leave untranslated.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H636.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:11; 1:12; 1:29; 2:9; 2:9; 2:9; 2:16; 2:16; 2:16; 3:1; 3:2; 3:3; 3:8; 3:22; 3:24; 3:24; 6:14; 18:4; 18:8; 22:3; 22:6; 22:7; 22:9; 40:19

Exodus

7:19; 9:25; 10:15; 15:25; 25:5; 25:10

Leviticus

1:7; 11:32; 14:4; 14:6; 14:45; 14:49; 14:51; 14:52; 15:12; 19:23; 23:40

Numbers

19:6; 31:20; 35:18

Deuteronomy

4:28; 10:3; 12:2; 16:21; 19:5; 19:5; 19:5; 20:20; 21:22; 21:23; 28:36; 28:42; 28:64; 29:10; 29:16

Joshua

2:6; 8:29; 9:21; 9:23; 9:27; 10:26; 10:27

Judges

6:26; 9; 9:8; 9:8

1 Samuel

6:14; 17:7

2 Samuel

5:11; 6:5; 21:19; 23:7; 24:22

1 Kings

5:6; 6:23; 6:31; 6:32; 6:33; 14:23; 15:22; 18:23

2 Kings

6:6; 12:13; 16:4; 17:10; 19:18; 22:6

1 Chronicles

14:1; 20:5; 21:23; 29:2

2 Chronicles

2:7; 16:5; 28:4; 34:11

Nehemiah

2:8; 8:4; 8:15; 9:25

Esther

2:23

Psalms

1:3; 74:5; 104:16; 148:9

Proverbs

3:18; 11:30; 13:12; 15:4

Ecclesiastes

2:5

Song of Songs

4:14

Isaiah

7:2; 7:2; 10:19; 30:33; 37:19; 40:20; 41:19; 44:14; 44:19; 44:23; 45:20; 55:12; 57:5; 65:22

Jeremiah

2:20; 2:27; 3:6; 3:9; 3:13; 9:11; 10:8; 17:2; 17:18; 28:13; 52:22; 52:24

Lamentations

5:4

Ezekiel

6:13; 15:2; 15:2; 15:6; 15:6; 17:24; 20:28; 20:32; 21:15; 24:5; 26:12; 31:9; 31:14; 31:16; 31:18; 36:30; 47:12

Hosea

4:12

Joel

2:22

Habakkuk

2:11; 2:19

Haggai

2:19

Zechariah

5:4

H6086

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6086 matches the Hebrew עֵץ (ʿēṣ),
which occurs 330 times in 288 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 6 (Exo 37:15–Jos 9:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:15 - He made the poles of acacia wood H6086 and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:25 -

Then he made the altar of incense of acacia wood H6086: a cubit [fn]long and a cubit [fn]wide, square, and two cubits [fn]high; its horns were of one piece with it.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:28 - He made the poles of acacia wood H6086 and overlaid them with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:1 -

Then he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood H6086, five [fn]cubits [fn]long, and five cubits [fn]wide, square, and three cubits [fn]high.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:6 - He made the poles of acacia wood H6086 and overlaid them with bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:7 - ‘And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood H6086 on the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:8 - ‘Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the suet over the wood H6086 which is on the fire that is on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:12 - ‘He shall then cut it into its pieces with its head and its suet, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood H6086 which is on the fire that is on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:17 - ‘Then he shall tear it by its wings, but he shall not separate it. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood H6086 which is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:5 - ‘Then Aaron’s sons shall offer it up in smoke on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood H6086 that is on the fire; it is an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:12 - [fn]that is, all the rest of the bull, he shall bring out to a clean place outside the camp where the [fn]ashes are poured out, and he shall burn it on wood H6086 with fire; where the [fn]ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:12 - ‘And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the priest shall burn wood H6086 on it every morning; and he shall lay out the burnt offering on it and offer up in smoke the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - ‘Also anything on which one of them may fall when they are dead becomes unclean, including any wooden H6086 article or clothing or a skin or a sack—any article by which work is done—it shall be put in the water and be unclean until evening, then it becomes clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4 - then the priest shall give a command to take two live clean birds and cedar wood H6086 and a [fn]scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6 - As for the live bird, he shall take it together with the cedar wood H6086 and the [fn]scarlet string and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the [fn]running water.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - “He shall therefore tear down the house, its stones and its timbers H6086 and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:49 - “To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds and cedar wood H6086 and a [fn]scarlet string and hyssop,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51 - “Then he shall take the cedar wood H6086 and the hyssop and the [fn]scarlet string, with the live bird, and he shall dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird as well as in the [fn]running water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:52 - “He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the [fn]running water, along with the live bird and with the cedar wood H6086 and with the hyssop and with the [fn]scarlet string.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:12 - ‘However, an earthenware vessel which the person with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every wooden H6086 vessel shall be rinsed in water.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23 -

‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees H6086 for food, then you shall designate their fruit as [fn]forbidden. Three years it shall be [fn]forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40 - ‘And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the [fn]foliage of beautiful trees H6086, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees H6086 and willows of the brook, and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:4 - then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will give forth its produce and the trees H6086 of the field will give forth their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - ‘And your power will be spent uselessly, for your land will not give forth its produce and the trees H6086 of the land will not give forth their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30 -

‘Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree H6086, belongs to Yahweh; it is holy to Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:20 - “And how is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees H6086 in it or not? [fn]Make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 -

Now the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering wood H6086 on the sabbath day.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:33 - And those who found him gathering wood H6086 brought him near to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6 - ‘And the priest shall take cedar wood H6086 and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the [fn]burning heifer.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:20 - “And you shall purify for yourselves every garment and every article of [fn]leather and all the work of goats’ hair and all articles of wood H6086.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - ‘Or if he struck him with a wooden H6086 object in the hand, by which he would die, and as a result he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28 - “And there you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood H6086 and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 -

“At that time Yahweh said to me, ‘Carve out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood H6086 for yourself.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - “So I made an ark of acacia wood H6086 and carved out two tablets of stone like the former ones and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - “You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree H6086.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 -

“You shall not plant for yourself an [fn]Asherah of any kind of tree H6086 beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourself.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood H6086, and his hand [fn]swings the axe to cut down the tree H6086, and the iron head slips off the [fn]handle H6086 and [fn]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19 -

“If you besiege a city for many days, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees H6086 by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. [fn]For is the tree H6086 of the field a man, that it should [fn]be besieged by you?

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - “Only the trees H6086 which you know are not trees H6086 for food you shall destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 -

“And if a man has committed a sin, the judgment of which is death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree H6086,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree H6086, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (because cursed of God is he who is hanged), so that you do not make unclean your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 -

“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree H6086 or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:36 - “Yahweh will lead you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood H6086 and stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42 - “The cricket shall possess all your trees H6086 and the produce of your ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64 - “Moreover, Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood H6086 and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 - your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is within your camps, from the one who chops your wood H6086 to the one who draws your water,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - moreover, you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood H6086, stone, silver, and gold, which they had with them—
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - But she had brought them up to the roof and concealed them in the stalks H6086 of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree H6086 until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave a command, and they took his body down from the tree H6086 and threw it at the entrance of the city gate and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:21 - So the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” Thus they became hewers of wood H6086 and drawers of water for the whole congregation, just as the leaders had spoken to them.

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