צַמֶּרֶתtsammereth
tree-top (possibly from woolly, feathery, appearance) (Ezekiel 17:3; Ezekiel 17:22; Ezekiel 31:3; Ezekiel 31:10; Ezekiel 31:14)
Pronunciation: tsam-meh'-reth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6788
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Ezekiel 17:3 Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord: “A great eagle with broad wings and long feathers, covered with many-colored plumage, came to Lebanon. He seized the top of a cedar tree
- Ezekiel 17:22 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take a branch from the top of a tall cedar, and I will plant it on the top of Israel’s highest mountain.
- Ezekiel 31:3 You are like mighty Assyria, which was once like a cedar of Lebanon, with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shade and with its top high among the clouds.
- Ezekiel 31:10 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because Egypt became proud and arrogant, and because it set itself so high above the others, with its top reaching to the clouds,
- Ezekiel 31:14 Let the tree of no other nation proudly exult in its own prosperity, though it be higher than the clouds and it be watered from the depths. For all are doomed to die, to go down to the depths of the earth. They will land in the pit along with everyone else on earth.
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).