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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 עֵדֶן † Ezekiel 31:9, 16, 18 (twice in verse); עֲצֵי לְבוֺנָה Songs 4:14; of vine עֵץ הַגֶּפֶן † Ezekiel 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 fruit—trees 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 הַיַּעַר † Ezekiel 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 20 times in 16 verses in 'Deu' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28 - And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - “At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 - “You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19 - “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 - “And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - “If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:36 - “The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42 - The cricket[fn] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64 - “And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 - your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
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