עֵץʻêts
tree, trees, wood
Pronunciation: ates · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6086
Meanings
1.
a. a standing tree (Genesis 18:4; Genesis 18:8; Exodus 15:25)
b. trees (Genesis 2:16; Genesis 3:1; Genesis 3:2)
c. plural of trees felled for building (1 Kings 5:20; 1 Kings 5:32; 2 Samuel 5:11)
2. plural, to denote pieces [or articles] of wood)
a. wood, as material (2 Kings 12:13; 2 Kings 22:6; 2 Chronicles 34:11)
b. עֵצִים = articles of wood (Exodus 7:19; 1 Chronicles 29:2; 2 Samuel 6:5)
c. of idols (Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 28:64)
d. (fire-) wood (Joshua 9:23; Joshua 9:27; Joshua 9:21)
e. עֵץ (הָ)אֶרֶז cedar-wood, used in purifications (Leviticus 14:4; Leviticus 14:6; Leviticus 14:49)
f. woody-flax, i.e. flax on the stalk (Joshua 2:6; Jeremiah 10:8; Ezekiel 21:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 330 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.
- Genesis 1:12 The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.
- Genesis 2:9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:16 But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—
- Genesis 2:17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
See every passage
- Genesis 1:11, 1:12, 1:29, 2:9, 2:16, 2:17, 3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 3:6, 3:8, 3:11, 3:12, 3:17, 3:22, 3:24, 6:14, 18:4, 18:8, 22:3, 22:6, 22:7, 22:9, 23:17, 40:19
- Exodus 7:19, 9:25, 10:5, 10:15, 15:25, 25:5, 25:10, 25:13, 25:23, 25:28, 26:15, 26:26, 27:1, 27:6, 30:1, 30:5, 31:5, 35:7, 35:24, 35:33, 36:20, 36:31, 37:1, 37:4, 37:10, 37:15, 37:25, 37:28, 38:1, 38:6
- Leviticus 1:7, 1:8, 1:12, 1:17, 3:5, 4:12, 6:12, 11:32, 14:4, 14:6, 14:45, 14:49, 14:51, 14:52, 15:12, 19:23, 23:40, 26:4, 26:20, 27:30
- Numbers 13:20, 15:32, 15:33, 19:6, 31:20, 35:18
- Deuteronomy 4:28, 10:1, 10:3, 12:2, 16:21, 19:5, 20:19, 20:20, 21:22, 21:23, 22:6, 28:36, 28:42, 28:64, 29:11, 29:17
- Joshua 2:6, 8:29, 9:21, 9:23, 9:27, 10:26, 10:27
- Judges 6:26, 9:8, 9:9, 9:10, 9:11, 9:12, 9:13, 9:14, 9:15, 9:48
- 1 Samuel 6:14, 17:7
- 2 Samuel 5:11, 6:5, 21:19, 23:7, 24:22
- 1 Kings 4:33, 5:6, 5:8, 5:10, 5:18, 6:10, 6:15, 6:23, 6:31, 6:32, 6:33, 6:34, 9:11, 10:11, 10:12, 14:23, 15:22, 17:10, 17:12, 18:23, 18:33, 18:38
- 2 Kings 3:19, 3:25, 6:4, 6:6, 12:11, 12:12, 16:4, 17:10, 19:18, 22:6
- 1 Chronicles 14:1, 16:33, 20:5, 21:23, 22:4, 22:14, 22:15, 29:2
- 2 Chronicles 2:8, 2:9, 2:10, 2:14, 2:16, 3:5, 9:10, 9:11, 16:6, 28:4, 34:11
- Ezra 3:7
- Nehemiah 2:8, 8:4, 8:15, 9:25, 10:34, 10:35, 10:37, 13:31
- Esther 2:23, 5:14, 6:4, 7:9, 7:10, 8:7, 9:13, 9:25
- Job 14:7, 19:10, 24:20, 41:27
- Psalms 1:3, 74:5, 96:12, 104:16, 105:33, 148:9
- Proverbs 3:18, 11:30, 13:12, 15:4, 26:20, 26:21
- Ecclesiastes 2:5, 2:6, 10:9, 11:3
- Song of Solomon 2:3, 3:9, 4:14
- Isaiah 7:2, 10:15, 10:19, 30:33, 37:19, 40:20, 41:19, 44:13, 44:14, 44:19, 44:23, 45:20, 55:12, 56:3, 57:5, 60:17, 65:22
- Jeremiah 2:20, 2:27, 3:6, 3:9, 3:13, 5:14, 7:18, 7:20, 10:3, 10:8, 11:19, 17:2, 17:8, 28:13, 46:22
- Lamentations 4:8, 5:4, 5:13
- Ezekiel 6:13, 15:2, 15:3, 15:6, 17:24, 20:28, 20:32, 20:47, 21:10, 24:10, 26:12, 31:4, 31:5, 31:8, 31:9, 31:14, 31:15, 31:16, 31:18, 34:27, 36:30, 37:16, 37:17, 37:19, 37:20, 39:10, 41:16, 41:22, 41:25, 47:7, 47:12
- Hosea 4:12
- Joel 1:12, 1:19, 2:22
- Habakkuk 2:11, 2:19
- Haggai 1:8, 2:19
- Zechariah 5:4, 12:6
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).