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Lexicon :: Strong's H6086 - ʿēṣ

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עֵץ
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ʿēṣ
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 5 / 6 (Pro 11:30–Eze 15:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:30 - The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who is wise saves lives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:12 - Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:4 - The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:20 - Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21 - As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:5 - I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6 - I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:9 - Whoever quarries stones may be injured by them; whoever splits logs may be endangered by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:3 - If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 - She: Like an apple[fn] tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:9 - King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14 - nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2 - Now the house of David was told, “Aram has allied itself with[fn] Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 - Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:19 - And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:33

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:33 - Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:20 - A person too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot; they look for a skilled worker to set up an idol that will not topple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19 - I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:13 - The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in human form, human form in all its glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19 - No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, “Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:23 - Sing for joy, you heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, you earth beneath. Burst into song, you mountains, you forests and all your trees, for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, he displays his glory in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:20 - “Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:12 - You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 - Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say, “The LORD will surely exclude me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain, “I am only a dry tree.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:17 - Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron. Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones. I will make peace your governor and well-being your ruler.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22 - No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 - Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’ ”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:14 - Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 - For the practices of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:8 - They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:2 - Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles[fn] beside the spreading trees and on the high hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:8 - They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:13 - “Go and tell Hananiah, ‘This is what the LORD says: You have broken a wooden yoke, but in its place you will get a yoke of iron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 - Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as the enemy advances in force; they will come against her with axes, like men who cut down trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - But now they are blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 - We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - And they will know that I am the LORD, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:2 - “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?

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