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Strong's #730 - אֶרֶז
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- cedar
- cedar tree
- cedar timber, cedar wood (in building)
- cedar wood (in purifications)
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1444) zr (רז RZ) AC: ? CO: Cedar AB: ?: The bark of the cedar tree is pulled off in long thin strips which can be woven into a cords. (eng: razor)
A) zr (רז RZ) AC: ? CO: Cypress AB: ?: As hidden and therefore thin.
Nm) zr (רז RZ) - Secret: [Aramaic only] KJV (9): secret - Strongs: H7328 (רָז)
if1 ) ezrt (תרזה TRZH) - Cypress: A tree similar to a cedar. [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (1): cypress - Strongs: H8645 (תִּרְזָה)
C) zra (ארז ARZ) AC: ? CO: Cedar AB: ?
Nm ) zra (ארז ARZ) - Ce |kjv: cedar - Strongs: H730 (אֶרֶז)
Nf1 ) ezra (ארזה ARZH) - Cedar work: KJV (1): cedar work - Strongs: H731 (אַרְזָה)
dm) zfra (ארוז ARWZ) - Bound: Something bound securely with cords. KJV (1): cedar - Strongs: H729 (אָרוּז)
H) ezr (רזה RZH) AC: ? CO: Thin AB: ?
V) ezr (רזה RZH) - Shrivel: To be made thin. KJV (2): (vf: Paal, Niphal) famish, lean - Strongs: H7329 (רָזָה)
Nm) ezr (רזה RZH) - Lean: KJV (2): lean - Strongs: H7330 (רָזֶה)
fm) izr (רזי RZY) - Leanness: KJV (2): leanness - Strongs: H7334 (רָזִי)
jm) nfzr (רזונ RZWN) - Leanness: Something made thin. KJV (3): leanness, scant - Strongs: H7332 (רָזוֹן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 cedar-tree, ( a) as growing Numbers 24:6; Psalm 148:9; Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 44:14 compare Ezekiel 31:8; especially as growing on Lebanon 1 Kings 5:13; 2 Kings 14:9 2 Chronicles 25:18 (both in fable of Jehoash); often אַרְזֵי (הַ) לְּבָנוֺן Judges 9:15; Isaiah 2:13; Isaiah 14:8; Psalm 29:5 (twice in verse) (figurative) Psalm 104:16, compare 1 Kings 5:20; 2 Kings 19:23 = Isaiah 37:24; Psalm 92:13; Song of Solomon 5:15; Ezekiel 27:5 (singular collective) Zechariah 11:1,2(figurative); Song of Solomon 1:17; Ezra 3:7; Jeremiah 22:23 (figurative) Ezekiel 17:3 (figurative); ( b) especially in simile, of outward power, stateliness & majesty Psalm 80:11 (אֵל׳א) compare Ezekiel 31:3 (personified, but see Co on text), Amos 2:9; of individuals Jeremiah 22:7; Psalm 92:13; Ezekiel 17:22,23; compare other examples of figurative use, above; simile of straightness & strength Job 40:17 (tail of hippopotamus).
2 cedar-timber, cedar-wood for building, עֲצֵי אֲרָזִים 1 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:22; 1 Kings 5:24; 1 Kings 6:10; 1 Kings 9:11; 1 Chronicles 14:1; 1 Chronicles 22:4 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 2:7; Ezra 3:7; without עֵץ 2 Samuel 7:2,7; 1 Kings 6:9,15,16,18 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 6:20,36; 1 Kings 7:2 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 7:3,7,11,12; 1 Kings 10:27; 1 Chronicles 17:1; 1 Chronicles 17:6; 2 Chronicles 1:15; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 9:27 & Song of Solomon 8:9; Isaiah 9:9; Jeremiah 22:14,15 (compare also Isaiah 44:14; 1 Kings 5:20; Ezekiel 27:5; Ezra 3:7 above)
3 cedar-wood used in purifications, with עֵץ Leviticus 14:4,6,49,51,52; Numbers 19:6 (all P).
אֶרֶז pl. אֲרָזִים, אַרְזֵי m. cedar, so called from the firmness of its roots which is remarkable in trees of the pine kind (Theophr. Hist. Plant. ii. 7). The cedrus conifera, is the kind pointed out, a tree uncommonly tall (Isaiah 2:13, 37:24 Amos 2:9) and wide-spreading (Ezekiel 31:3), formerly very abundant in Lebanon (Psalms 29:5, 92:13 104:16 ), but now reduced to a very small number (Ritter, Erdkunde, ii. 446); its wood is odoriferous, without knots, and not liable to decay; used therefore for building and adorning the temple and royal palaces, especially for wainscots and ceilings. Hence used for cedar-work, 1 Kings 6:18. Arab. أَرْزُ, which is still used by the inhabitants of Lebanon; Eth. አርዝ፡ Aram. אַרְזָא; ܐܰܪܙܳܐ. There was therefore no need to deny אֶרֶז to be the cedar, and to make it the pine, as done by Celsius in Hierob. i. 106, seq.