אֶרֶזʼerez

cedar

Pronunciation: eh-rez' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H730

Meanings

1. cedar-tree

a as growing (Numbers 24:6; Psalms 148:9; Isaiah 41:19)

2. cedar-timber, cedar-wood (1 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:22; 1 Kings 5:24)

3. cedar-wood (Leviticus 14:4; Leviticus 14:6; Leviticus 14:49)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 73 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 14:4 he will perform a purification ceremony, using two live birds that are ceremonially clean, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch.
  • Leviticus 14:6 He will take the live bird, the cedar stick, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop branch, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
  • Leviticus 14:49 To purify the house the priest must take two birds, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch.
  • Leviticus 14:51 He will take the cedar stick, the hyssop branch, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them into the blood of the slaughtered bird and into the fresh water. Then he will sprinkle the house seven times.
  • Leviticus 14:52 When the priest has purified the house in exactly this way,
  • Numbers 19:6 Eleazar the priest must then take a stick of cedar, a hyssop branch, and some scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning.
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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).