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Lexicon :: Strong's H6086 - ʿēṣ

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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 3 / 6 (Jos 9:23–2Ki 16:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:23 - “Now therefore, you are cursed, and [fn]you will never cease to be slaves, both gatherers of firewood H6086 and [fn]labor to draw water for the house of my God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:27 - But on that day Joshua made them gatherers of firewood H6086 and [fn]labor to draw water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place which He would choose.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:26 - So afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five [fn]trees H6086; and they were hung on the [fn]trees H6086 until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - Then it came about at [fn]sunset that Joshua gave the command, and they took them down from the [fn]trees H6086 and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and put large stones over the mouth of the cave, to this very day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26 - and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly way, and take a second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood H6086 of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8 - “Once the trees H6086 went to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us!’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I give up my fatness with [fn]which God and mankind are honored, and go to wave over the trees H6086?’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:10 - “Then the trees H6086 said to the fig tree, ‘You, come, reign over us!’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:11 - “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I give up my sweetness and my good [fn]fruit, and go to wave over the trees H6086?’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:12 - “Then the trees H6086 said to the vine, ‘You, come, reign over us!’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:13 - “But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I give up my new wine, which cheers God and mankind, and go to wave over the trees H6086?’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:14 - “Then all the trees H6086 said to the bramble, ‘You, come, reign over us!’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - “And the bramble said to the trees H6086, ‘If you [fn]really are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out of the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took [fn]an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees H6086, and lifted it and put it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you saw me do, hurry and do [fn]likewise.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:14 - And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite and stopped there where there was a large stone; and they split the wood H6086 of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:7 - The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the head of his spear weighed [fn]six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-carrier walked in front of him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:11 -

Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees H6086, carpenters H6086, and [fn]stonemasons; and they built a house for David.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5 - Meanwhile, David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of juniper wood H6086, and with [fn]lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19 - And there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite [fn]killed [fn]Goliath the Gittite, the shaft H6086 of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:7 -

Instead, the man who touches them

Must be [fn]armed with iron and the shaft H6086 of a spear,

And they will be completely burned with fire in their [fn]place.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:22 - Araunah then said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, here are the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood H6086.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - He told of trees H6086, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he told also of animals, birds, crawling things, and fish.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - “Now then, issue orders that they cut cedars from Lebanon for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants in accordance with all that you say, for you yourself know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber H6086 like the Sidonians.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:8 - So Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you sent me; I will do everything you wish concerning the cedar and juniper timber H6086.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:10 - So [fn]Hiram [fn]gave Solomon all that he wished of the cedar and juniper timber H6086.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:18 - So Solomon’s builders and [fn]Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites [fn]cut the stones, and they prepared the timbers H6086 and the stones to build the house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:10 - He also built the stories against the whole house, each [fn]five cubits high; and they [fn]were attached to the house with timbers H6086 of cedar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:15 - He built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the [fn]ceiling he paneled the walls on the inside with wood H6086, and he paneled the floor of the house with boards of juniper.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:23 -

And in the inner sanctuary he made two [fn]cherubim of olive wood H6086, each [fn]ten cubits high.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:31 -

And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood H6086, the lintel, and five-sided doorposts.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:32 - So he made two doors of olive wood H6086, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he overlaid the cherubim and the palm trees with gold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:33 -

So too he made for the entrance of the main room four-sided doorposts of olive wood H6086,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:34 - and two doors of juniper wood H6086; the two leaves of the one door turned on pivots, and the two [fn]leaves of the other door turned on pivots.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and juniper timber H6086 and gold, [fn]satisfying all his desire), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:11 -

And the ships of Hiram as well, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug trees H6086 and precious stones.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - The king made from the almug trees H6086 supports for the house of the LORD and for the king’s house, and lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees H6086 have not come in again, nor have they been seen to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - For they, too, built for themselves high places, memorial stones, and [fn]Asherim on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree H6086.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:22 - Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah—no one was exempt—and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber H6086 with which Baasha had built fortifications. And King Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the entrance of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks H6086; and he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a [fn]cup, so that I may drink.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12 - But she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have no food, only a handful of flour in the [fn]bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering [fn]a few sticks H6086 so that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, so that we may [fn]eat it and die.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:23 - “Now have them give us two oxen; and have them choose the one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood H6086, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood H6086, and I will not put a fire under it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:33 - Then he laid out the wood H6086, and he cut the ox in pieces and placed it on the wood H6086.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood H6086, and the stones and the dust; and it licked up the water that was in the trench.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:19 - ‘Then you shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and [fn]cut down every good tree H6086 and stop up all the springs of water, and spoil every good plot of land with stones.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - So they destroyed the cities; and each one threw a stone on every plot of good land and filled it. So they stopped up every spring of water and [fn]cut down every good tree H6086, until in Kir-hareseth only they left its stones; however, the rock slingers surrounded it and struck it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:4 - So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees H6086.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:6 - Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick H6086 and threw it in there, and made the iron float.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:11 - And they handed the money which was assessed over to those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they [fn]paid it out to the carpenters H6086 and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:12 - and to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber H6086 and cut stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and for everything that [fn]was laid out for the house to repair it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:4 - And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree H6086.

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