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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.
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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 6 / 6 (Eze 15:6–Zec 12:6)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree H6086 among the trees H6086 of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:24 - And all the trees H6086 of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, H6086 have exalted the low tree, H6086 have dried up the green tree, H6086 and have made the dry tree H6086 to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:28 - For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, H6086 and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood H6086 and stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47 - And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree H6086 in thee, and every dry tree: H6086 the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:10 - It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. H6086

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:10 - Heap on wood, H6086 kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber H6086 and thy dust in the midst of the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees H6086 of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:5 - Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees H6086 of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8 - The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree H6086 in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9 - I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees H6086 of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:14 - To the end that none of all the trees H6086 by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees H6086 of the field fainted for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees H6086 of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18 - To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees H6086 of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees H6086 of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:27 - And the tree H6086 of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:30 - And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, H6086 and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:16 - Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, H6086 and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, H6086 and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick H6086 of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:17 - And join them one to another into one stick; H6086 and they shall become one in thine hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:19 - Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick H6086 of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick H6086 of Judah, and make them one stick, H6086 and they shall be one in mine hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:20 - And the sticks H6086 whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:10 - So that they shall take no wood H6086 out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:16 - The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood H6086 round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:22 - The altar of wood H6086 was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: H6086 and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:25 - And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks H6086 upon the face of the porch without.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:7 - Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees H6086 on the one side and on the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees H6086 for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, H6086 and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12 - The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees H6086 of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:19 - O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees H6086 of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22 - Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree H6086 beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:11 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber H6086 shall answer it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:19 - Woe unto him that saith to the wood, H6086 Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:8 - Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, H6086 and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, H6086 hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4 - I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber H6086 thereof and the stones thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:6 - In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, H6086 and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

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