Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1265
בְּרוֹשׁ
beroshber-osh'
cypress
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉrôwsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1265is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1265
a cypress (?) tree; hence, a lance or a musical instrument (as made of that wood)
The King James renders it: fir (tree).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
berosh is rendered "cypress". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Five of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 6:5David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
2 Samuel 6:5בְרוֹשִׁ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's twenty uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cypresses6
- fir trees5
- cypress2
- pines its2
- a cypress1
- and the cypresses1
- firs1
- like a cypress tree1
- O cypress1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּרִית | berith | covenant | Uses284 |
| בְּרָכָה | Berakah | blessing | Uses69 |
| בְּרִיחַ | beriach | bar | Uses40 |
| בְּרֵכָה | berekah | (Shelah) Pool | Uses17 |
| בְּרַם | beram | nevertheless | Uses5 |
| בְּרַךְ | berak | to bless | Uses5 |
| בְּרִי | beri | fat | Uses1 |
| בְּרוֹם | berom | rich apparel | Uses1 |
| בְּרוֹת | beroth | cypress | Uses1 |
| בְּרִית | Berith | (Baal)-berith | Uses1 |
| בְּרִיאָה | beriah | creation | Uses1 |
| בְּרִיעִי | Berii | Beriite | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּר֛וֹשׁ2
- בְרוֹשִׁ֑ים2
- בְּרֹשָׁ֔יו2
- בְר֔וֹשׁ1
- בְּרוֹשׁ֙1
- בְרוֹשִׁ֖ים1
- בְרוֹשִׁ֛ים1
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֥ים1
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֣ים1
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֔ים1
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֛ים1
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֤ים1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural12HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
2 Samuel
one use
David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
- בְרוֹשִׁ֑יםveroshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: fir trees
1 Kings
five uses
Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.
- בְרוֹשִֽׁים׃veroshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cypresses
So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
- בְרוֹשִׁ֖יםveroshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cypresses
He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
- בְּרוֹשִֽׁים׃beroshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cypresses
The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.
- בְרוֹשִׁ֑יםveroshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cypresses
King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
- בְרוֹשִׁ֛יםveroshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cypresses
2 Kings
one use
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
- בְּרֹשָׁ֔יוberoshavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: pines its
2 Chronicles
two uses
Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֣יםberoshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: firs
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֔יםberoshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cypresses
Psalms
one use
where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֥יםberoshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: fir trees
Isaiah
five uses
Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֛יםberoshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: fir trees
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.
- בְּרֹשָׁ֔יוberoshavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: pines its
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
- בְּר֛וֹשׁberooshnoun · masculine singulartagged: cypress
Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
- בְר֔וֹשׁverooshnoun · masculine singulartagged: a cypress
The glory of Lebanon will come to you—its cypress, elm, and boxwood together—to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.
- בְּר֛וֹשׁberooshnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cypress
Ezekiel
two uses
They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֤יםberoshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: fir trees
The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.
- בְּרוֹשִׁ֗יםberoshimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: fir trees
Hosea
one use
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
- כִּבְר֣וֹשׁkivrooshpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a cypress tree
Nahum
one use
The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.
- וְהַבְּרֹשִׁ֖יםvehaberoshimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the cypresses
Zechariah
one use
Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!
- בְּרוֹשׁ֙berovoshnoun · masculine singulartagged: O cypress
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.