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Lexicon :: Strong's H6086 - ʿēṣ

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עֵץ
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ʿēṣ
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masculine noun
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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 5 / 6 (Pro 11:30–Eze 15:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:30 -

The fruit of the righteous is a tree H6086 of life,

And he who is wise [fn]wins souls.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:12 -

[fn]Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

But desire [fn]fulfilled is a tree H6086 of life.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:4 -

A tongue that brings healing is a tree H6086 of life,

But perversion in it breaks the spirit.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:20 -

With no wood H6086 the fire goes out,

And where there is no whisperer, strife quiets down.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21 -

Like charcoal to hot embers and wood H6086 to fire,

So is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:5 - I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees H6086;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6 - I made for myself pools of water from which to water a forest of growing trees H6086.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:9 - He who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and he who splits logs H6086 may be endangered by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:3 - If the clouds are full, they empty the rain upon the earth; and whether a tree H6086 falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree H6086 falls, there it [fn]lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 -

[fn]Like an [fn]apple tree among the trees H6086 of the forest,

So is my beloved among the sons.

In his shade I had great desire and sat down,

And his fruit was sweet to my [fn]taste.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:9 -

“King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair

From the timber H6086 of Lebanon.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14 -

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,

With all the trees H6086 of frankincense,

Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest [fn]spices.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2 - When it was told to the house of David, saying, “[fn]The Arameans have camped in Ephraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees H6086 of the forest shake before the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 -

Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it?

Is the saw to magnify itself over the one who wields it?

That would be like a rod wielding those who lift it,

Or like a staff lifting him who is not wood H6086.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:19 -

And the rest of the trees H6086 of his forest will be so small in number

That a child could write them down.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:33 -

For [fn]Topheth has long been ready,

Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.

He has made it deep and large,

[fn]A pyre of fire with plenty of wood H6086;

The breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood H6086 and stone. So they have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:20 -

He who is too impoverished to make such a contribution

Chooses a tree H6086 that does not rot;

He seeks out for himself a wise craftsman

To [fn]prepare a graven image that will not be shaken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19 -

“I will put the cedar in the wilderness,

The acacia and the myrtle and the [fn]olive tree;

I will place the juniper in the desert

Together with the box tree and the cypress,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:13 - Another crafts wood H6086, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with [fn]a stylus. He makes it with planes and outlines it with a compass and makes it like the form of a man, like the glory of man, so that it may sit in a house.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - In order to cut cedars for himself, he takes a [fn]cypress or an oak and [fn]raises it for himself among the trees H6086 of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19 - No one causes this to return to his heart, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then [fn]I make the rest of it into an abomination; [fn]I fall down before a block of wood H6086!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:23 -

Shout for joy, O heavens, for Yahweh has done it!

Make a loud shout, you lower parts of the earth;

Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains,

O forest, and every tree H6086 in it;

For Yahweh has redeemed Jacob

And in Israel He shows forth His beautiful glory.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:20 -

“Gather yourselves and come;

Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations;

They do not know,

Who carry about their graven image of wood H6086

And pray to a god who cannot save.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:12 -

“For you will go out with gladness

And be led forth with peace;

The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you,

And all the trees H6086 of the field will clap their hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 -

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh say,

“Yahweh will surely separate me from His people.”

Nor let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree H6086.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 -

Who inflame yourselves among the [fn]oaks,

Under every green tree H6086,

Who slaughter the children in the [fn]ravines,

Under the clefts of the cliffs?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:17 -

“Instead of bronze I will bring gold,

And instead of iron I will bring silver,

And instead of wood H6086, bronze,

And instead of stones, iron.

And I will make peace your overseers

And righteousness your taskmasters.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22 -

“They will not build and another inhabit;

They will not plant and another eat;

For as the [fn]lifetime of a tree H6086, so will be the days of My people,

And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 -

“For long ago [fn]I broke your yoke

And tore off your bonds;

But you said, ‘I will not serve!’

For on every high hill

And under every green tree H6086

You have lain down as a harlot.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 -

Who say to a tree H6086, ‘You are my father,’

And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’

For they have turned their back to Me

And not their face;

But in the time when their evil comes they will say,

‘Arise and save us.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 -

Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree H6086, and she was a harlot there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - “So it was, because of the lightness of her harlotry, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees H6086.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 -

‘Only [fn]acknowledge your iniquity,

That you have transgressed against Yahweh your God

And have scattered your ways of harlotry to the strangers under every green tree H6086,

And you have not listened to My voice,’ declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:14 -

Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts,

“Because you have spoken this word,

Behold, I am making My words in your mouth fire

And this people wood H6086, and it will devour them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - “The [fn]children gather wood H6086, and the fathers make the fire burn, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to provoke Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees H6086 of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 -

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity

Because it is wood H6086 cut from the forest,

The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:8 -

But they are altogether senseless and foolish;

They are in a discipline of [fn]vanities—it is mere wood H6086!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 -

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;

And I did not know that they had devised thoughts against me, saying,

“Let us make the tree H6086 with its [fn]fruit a ruin,

And let us cut him off from the land of the living,

That his name be remembered no more.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:2 -

As they remember their children,

So they remember their altars and their [fn]Asherim

By green trees H6086 on the high hills.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:8 -

“And he will be like a tree H6086 planted by the water,

That sends forth its roots by a stream

And will not fear when the heat comes;

But its leaves will be green,

And it will not be anxious in a year of drought

Nor refrain from yielding fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:13 - “Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You have broken the bars of a yoke made of wood H6086, but you have made in their place the bars of a yoke made of iron.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 -

“Its sound moves along like a serpent;

For they move on [fn]like a military force

And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 -

Heth

Their form is blacker than soot;

They are not recognized in the streets;

Their skin is shriveled on their bones;

It is withered, it has become like wood H6086.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 -

We drink our water by means of silver;

Our wood H6086 comes to us at a price.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 -

Young men lifted up the stone at the grinding mill,

And youths stumbled down under loads of wood H6086.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - “Then you will know that I am Yahweh when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree H6086, and under every leafy oak—the places where they [fn]offered a soothing aroma to all their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:2 - “Son of man, how is the wood H6086 of the vine better than any wood H6086 of a branch which is among the trees H6086 of the forest?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - “Can wood H6086 be taken from it to make [fn]anything, or can men take a peg from it on which to hang any vessel?

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