בְּרוֹשׁ berosh

Hebrew word for “cypress” · Strong’s H1265 · used 20 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

1) cypress, fir, juniper, pine; 1a) a noble tree (lit.); 1b) of stateliness (fig.); 1c) material for temple

How it is translated

Glosses given for berosh in context, with how often each is used:

• cypresses 8
• fir trees 5
• cypress 3
• pines 2
• firs 1
• like a cypress tree 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 5 (2), 1 Kings 6 (2), 2 Samuel 6 (1), 1 Kings 9 (1), 2 Kings 19 (1), 2 Chronicles 2 (1), 2 Chronicles 3 (1), Psalms 104 (1), Isaiah 14 (1), Isaiah 37 (1)

Forms

• ברושׁים 12
• ברושׁ 4
• ברשׁיו 2
• כברושׁ 1
• והברשׁים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with berosh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֶרֶז erez “cedar” 12
• עֵץ ets “tree” 10
• לְבָנוֹן levanon “Lebanon” 6
• כָּרַת karat “to cut” 5
• חִירָם chiram “Hiram” 3
• חֵפֶץ chephets “pleasure” 3
• תִּדְהָר tidhar “elm” 2
• תְּאַשּׁוּר teashshur “boxtree” 2
• יַעַר yaar “wood” 3
• אֲנִי ani “I” 5
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 5
• הֲדַס hadas “myrtle” 2

Key verses

The verses using berosh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Samuel 6:5 — And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels,…
• 2 Kings 19:23 — By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of…
• 2 Chronicles 2:8 — Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants…
• Isaiah 14:8 — Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
• Isaiah 37:24 — By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of…
• Isaiah 41:19 — I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box…
• Isaiah 55:13 — Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an…
• Isaiah 60:13 — The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place…
• Ezekiel 31:8 — The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in…
• Hosea 14:8 — Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
• Nahum 2:3 — The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir…
• Zechariah 11:2 — Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.