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Lexicon :: Strong's H730 - 'erez

Aa
אֶרֶז
Transliteration
'erez
Pronunciation
eh-rez'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 160a

Strong’s Definitions

אֶרֶז ʼerez, eh-rez'; from H729; a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots):—cedar (tree).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x

The KJV translates Strong's H730 in the following manner: cedar (67x), cedar tree (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x
The KJV translates Strong's H730 in the following manner: cedar (67x), cedar tree (6x).

  1. cedar

    1. cedar tree

    2. cedar timber, cedar wood (in building)

    3. cedar wood (in purifications)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶרֶז ʼerez, eh-rez'; from H729; a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots):—cedar (tree).
STRONGS H730: Abbreviations
† אֶ֫רֶז noun masculineEzekiel 17:23 cedar; — feminine Ezekiel 17:22 הָרָמָה א׳, but strike out הרמה Greek Version of the LXX Co; — (Arabic أَرْزً pine-tree, etc.; Ethiopic አርዝ፡ Syriac axzRAf  ) — א׳ absolute Leviticus 14:4 19 times, אָ֑רֶז Job 40:17 6 times; plural אֲרָזִיס Isaiah 9:9 35 times; construct אַרְזֵי Isaiah 2:13 5 times; suffix אֲרָזֶיךָ Jeremiah 22:17; Zechariah 11:1; אֲרָזָיו Isaiah 37:24 = 2 Kings 19:23; —
1. cedar-tree,
(a) as growing Numbers 24:6; Psalm 148:9; Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 44:14 compare Ezekiel 31:8; especially as growing on Lebanon 1 Kings 5:13; 2 Kings 14:9 2 Chronicles 25:18 (both in fable of Jehoash); often אַרְזֵי (הַ) לְּבָנוֺן Judges 9:15; Isaiah 2:13; Isaiah 14:8; Psalm 29:5 (twice in verse) (figurative) Psalm 104:16, compare 1 Kings 5:20; 2 Kings 19:23 = Isaiah 37:24; Psalm 92:13; Songs 5:15; Ezekiel 27:5 (singular collective) Zechariah 11:1, 2(figurative); Songs 1:17; Ezra 3:7; Jeremiah 22:23 (figurative) Ezekiel 17:3 (figurative);
(b) especially in simile, of outward power, stateliness & majesty Psalm 80:11 (אֵל א׳) compare Ezekiel 31:3 (personified, but see Co on text), Amos 2:9; of individuals Jeremiah 22:7; Psalm 92:13; Ezekiel 17:22, 23; compare other examples of figurative use, above; simile of straightness & strength Job 40:17 (tail of hippopotamus).
2. cedar-timber, cedar-wood for building, עֲצֵי אֲרָזִים 1 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:22 [1 Kings 5:8]; 1 Kings 5:24 [1 Kings 5:10]; 1 Kings 6:10; 1 Kings 9:11; 1 Chronicles 14:1; 1 Chronicles 22:4 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 2:7; Ezra 3:7; without עֵץ 2 Samuel 7:2, 7; 1 Kings 6:9, 15, 16, 18 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 6:20, 36; 1 Kings 7:2 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 7:3, 7, 11, 12; 1 Kings 10:27; 1 Chronicles 17:1; 1 Chronicles 17:6; 2 Chronicles 1:15; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 9:27 & Songs 8:9; Isaiah 9:9; Jeremiah 22:14, 15 (compare also Isaiah 44:14; 1 Kings 5:20; Ezekiel 27:5; Ezra 3:7 above)
3. cedar-wood used in purifications, with עֵץ Leviticus 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52; Numbers 19:6 (all P).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

14:4; 14:4; 14:6; 14:49; 14:51; 14:52

Numbers

19:6; 24:6

Judges

9:15

1 Samuel

5:11

2 Samuel

7:2; 7:7

1 Kings

5:8; 5:10; 5:13; 6:9; 6:10; 6:15; 6:16; 6:18; 6:20; 6:36; 7:2; 7:3; 7:7; 7:11; 7:12; 9:11; 10:27

2 Kings

14:9; 19:23; 19:23

1 Chronicles

14:1; 17:1; 17:6; 22:4

2 Chronicles

1:15; 2:3; 2:7; 9:27; 25:18

Ezra

3:7; 3:7; 3:7

Job

40:17; 40:17

Psalms

29:5; 80:11; 92:13; 92:13; 104:16; 148:9

Song of Songs

1:17; 5:15; 8:9

Isaiah

2:13; 2:13; 9:9; 9:9; 14:8; 37:24; 37:24; 41:19; 44:14; 44:14

Jeremiah

22:7; 22:14; 22:15; 22:17; 22:23

Ezekiel

17:3; 17:22; 17:22; 17:23; 17:23; 27:5; 27:5; 31:3; 31:8

Amos

2:9

Zechariah

11:1; 11:1; 11:2

H730

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Strong's Number H730 matches the Hebrew אֶרֶז ('erez),
which occurs 73 times in 69 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 14:4–Sng 8:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4 - Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6 - And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:49 - And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51 - And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:52 - And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6 - Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 - They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:11 - And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:2 - The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:7 - In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:8 - Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:10 - So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:9 - So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:10 - And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:15 - The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 - And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:18 - (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:20 - And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:36 - And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:2 - And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:3 - And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:7 - Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:11 - Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:12 - The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:27 - And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods; I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:1 - And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:1 - Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:6 - In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:4 - And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:15 - And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 - And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:18 - And Joash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:17 - His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:5 - By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10 - The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:12 - The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:16 - The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:9 - Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:17 - Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:15 - His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:9 - If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.

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