בְּרוֹשׁbᵉrôwsh

cypress or fir

Pronunciation: ber-osh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1265

Meanings

1. (literal) a noble tree (2 Samuel 6:5; 1 Kings 6:34; 2 Chronicles 3:5)

2. simile (Ezekiel 31:8; Hosea 14:9; Nahum 2:4)

3. as material (always plural) (1 Kings 5:22; 1 Kings 5:24; 1 Kings 6:34)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 20 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 6:5 David and all the people of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, singing songs and playing all kinds of musical instruments—lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.
  • 1 Kings 5:8 Then he sent this reply to Solomon: “I have received your message, and I will supply all the cedar and cypress timber you need.
  • 1 Kings 5:10 So Hiram supplied as much cedar and cypress timber as Solomon desired.
  • 1 Kings 6:15 The entire inside, from floor to ceiling, was paneled with wood. He paneled the walls and ceilings with cedar, and he used planks of cypress for the floors.
  • 1 Kings 6:34 There were two folding doors of cypress wood, and each door was hinged to fold back upon itself.
  • 1 Kings 9:11 he gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre. (Hiram had previously provided all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that Solomon had requested.)
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).