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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
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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 2 / 6 (Exo 37:15–Jos 9:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:15 - And he made the poles of acacia wood to bear the table, and overlaid them with gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:25 - He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit and its width a cubit—it was square—and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:28 - And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:1 - He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood; five cubits was its length and five cubits its width—it was square—and its height was three cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:6 - And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:7 - ‘The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay the wood in order on the fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:8 - ‘Then the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:12 - ‘And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:17 - ‘Then he shall split it at its wings, but shall not divide it completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:5 - ‘and Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is on the wood that is on the fire, as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:12 - ‘the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:12 - ‘And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it; and he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - ‘Anything on which any of them falls, when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item it is, in which any work is done, it must be put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4 - “then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6 - “As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - “And he shall break down the house, its stones, its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:49 - “And he shall take, to cleanse the house, two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51 - “and he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:52 - “And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and the running water and the living bird, with the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:12 - ‘The vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23 - ‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as uncircumcised. Three years it shall be as uncircumcised to you. It shall not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40 - ‘And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:4 - then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - And your strength shall be spent in vain;
for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30 - ‘And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s. It is holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:20 - “whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 - Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:33 - And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6 - ‘And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:20 - “Purify every garment, everything made of leather, everything woven of goats’ hair, and everything made of wood.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - ‘Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which one could die, and he does die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28 - “And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which 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, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself 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, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - “You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which 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 for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - “as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall 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, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field is man’s food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 - “If a man has committed a sin deserving of 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 overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with 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 the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42 - “Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 - “your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from the one who cuts 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 saw their abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold);

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - (But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:21 - And the rulers said to them, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, as the rulers had promised them.”

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