בַּרְזֶל barzel
Hebrew word for “iron” · Strong’s H1270 · used 76 times in 70 verses
Meaning
1) iron; 1a) iron; 1a1) iron ore;
How it is translated
Glosses given for barzel in context, with how often each is used:
- iron 72
- iron axe 2
- like iron 1
- will be iron 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deuteronomy | 8 | 0.6 | |
| Jeremiah | 8 | 0.4 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 7 | 0.7 | |
| Joshua | 6 | 0.6 | |
| Isaiah | 6 | 0.4 | |
| Ezekiel | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Job | 5 | 0.6 | |
| Psalms | 5 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Judges | 3 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Samuel | 3 | 0.3 | |
| 1 Kings | 3 | 0.2 |
Also in 9 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
1 Chronicles 22 (3), Deuteronomy 28 (2), Joshua 6 (2), Joshua 17 (2), Judges 4 (2), 2 Kings 6 (2), 1 Chronicles 29 (2), 2 Chronicles 2 (2), Psalms 107 (2), Jeremiah 28 (2)
Forms
- ברזל 44
- הברזל 14
- וברזל 8
- בברזל 3
- ובברזל 2
- ולברזל 2
- כברזל 1
- והברזל 1
- לברזל 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with barzel more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- נְחֹשֶׁת nechoshet “bronze” 23
- נְחוּשָׁה nechushah “bronze” 8
- כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 14
- זָהָב zahav “gold” 11
- עֵץ ets “tree” 10
- אֶבֶן even “stone” 9
- עֹפֶרֶת opheret “lead” 5
- כּוּר kur “furnace” 5
- בְּדִיל bedil “tin” 4
- רֶכֶב rekhev “chariot” 5
- כּוּן kun “to establish” 5
- קֶרֶן qeren “horn” 4
Key verses
The verses using barzel that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 3:11 — For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine…
- Deuteronomy 4:20 — But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
- Deuteronomy 28:48 — Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all and he shall…
- Judges 1:19 — And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots…
- Judges 4:3 — And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
- Psalms 2:9 — Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
- Psalms 107:10 — Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
- Isaiah 48:4 — Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- Jeremiah 1:18 — For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the…
- Jeremiah 11:4 — Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them,…
- Amos 1:3 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with…
- Micah 4:13 — Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will…
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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.