Lexicon :: Strong's H6086 - ʿēṣ

He made the poles for carrying the table from acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, 7 ¹/₂ feet long and 7 ¹/₂ feet wide,[fn] and was 4 ¹/₂ feet[fn] high.

“The sons of Aaron the priest will prepare a fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

“Aaron’s sons will burn it on the altar along with the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“all the rest of the bull ​— ​he must bring to a ceremonially clean place outside the camp to the ash heap, and must burn it on a wood fire. It is to be burned at the ash heap.

“The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest will burn wood on the fire. He is to arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat portions from the fellowship offerings on it.

“When any one of them dies and falls on anything it becomes unclean ​— ​any item of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work. It is to be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

“the priest will order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one who is to be cleansed.

“Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil is to be rinsed with water.

“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden.[fn] It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

“On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees ​— ​palm fronds, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook ​— ​and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

“I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

“Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

“Is the land fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous. Bring back some fruit from the land.” It was the season for the first ripe grapes.

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

“The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw them onto the fire where the cow is burning.

“Also purify everything: garments, leather goods, things made of goat hair, and every article of wood.”

“If anyone has in his hand a wooden object capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

“There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

“The LORD said to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to me on the mountain and make a wooden ark.

“Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods ​— ​on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

“Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

“If, for example, he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can get food from them. Do not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?

“If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, do not take the mother along with the young.

“The LORD will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.

“your dependents, your wives, and the resident aliens in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water ​— ​

But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.

He hung[fn] the body of the king of Ai on a tree[fn] until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which still remains today.

They also said, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had promised them.