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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1270

בַּרְזֶל

barzelbar-zel'

iron

76 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1270is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 44
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1270

iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement

The King James renders it: (ax) head, iron.

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

barzel is rendered "iron". It stands 76 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:22And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-four different ways.

The first use

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Genesis 4:22וּבַרְזֶ֑ל

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • iron44
  • the iron14
  • and iron8
  • and in the iron1
  • and of the iron1
  • and the iron1
  • and to the iron1
  • and with iron1
  • by iron1
  • for the iron1
  • in the iron1
  • like the iron1

and 1 more, 76 uses in all

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.

בַּרbarsonUses19
בַּרbarfieldUses8
בַּרbarpureUses7
בַּרְקָןbarqanbriarUses2
בַּרְבֻּרbarburfowlUses1
בַּרְחֻמִיBarchumiBahuriteUses1
בַּרbarsonUsesnot recorded

All 76, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

44 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

  • בַּרְזֶל֙7
  • בַּרְזֶ֑ל6
  • בַּרְזֶ֔ל4
  • בַּרְזֶֽל׃4
  • הַבַּרְזֶל֙4
  • הַבַּרְזֶ֖ל3
  • בַרְזֶ֔ל2
  • בַרְזֶ֖ל2
  • בַרְזֶ֑ל2
  • בַּרְזֶ֥ל2
  • בַּרְזֶ֖ל2
  • בַּרְזֶ֛ל2

and 32 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular44HNcmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular14HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular8HC/Ncmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular4HRd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HC/Rd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa

Genesis

one use
  • And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

    Genesis 4:22

    • וּבַרְזֶ֑לuvarzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and iron

Leviticus

one use
  • I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

    Leviticus 26:19

    • כַּבַּרְזֶ֔לkabarzelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the iron

Numbers

two uses
  • Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

    Numbers 31:22

    • הַבַּרְזֶ֔לhabarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
  • If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

    Numbers 35:16

    • בַרְזֶ֧ל׀varzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

Deuteronomy

eight uses
  • (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

    Deuteronomy 3:11

    • בַּרְזֶ֔לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

    Deuteronomy 4:20

    • הַבַּרְזֶ֖לhabarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
  • a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

    Deuteronomy 8:9

    • בַרְזֶ֔לvarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

    Deuteronomy 19:5

    • הַבַּרְזֶל֙habarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
  • Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

    Deuteronomy 27:5

    • בַּרְזֶֽל׃barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

    Deuteronomy 28:23

    • בַּרְזֶֽל׃barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

    Deuteronomy 28:48

    • בַּרְזֶל֙barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”

    Deuteronomy 33:25

    • בַּרְזֶ֥לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

Joshua

six uses
  • For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”

    Joshua 6:19

    • וּבַרְזֶ֔לuvarzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and iron
  • Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

    Joshua 6:24

    • וְהַבַּרְזֶ֔לvehabarzelconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the iron
  • just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.

    Joshua 8:31

    • בַּרְזֶ֑לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • “The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”

    Joshua 17:16

    • בַּרְזֶ֗לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”

    Joshua 17:18

    • בַּרְזֶל֙barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”

    Joshua 22:8

    • וּבְבַרְזֶ֛לuvevarzelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with iron

Judges

three uses
  • The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.

    Judges 1:19

    • בַּרְזֶ֖לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

    Judges 4:3

    • בַּרְזֶל֙barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.

    Judges 4:13

    • בַּרְזֶ֔לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

1 Samuel

one use
  • The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.

    1 Samuel 17:7

    • בַּרְזֶ֑לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

2 Samuel

three uses
  • David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

    2 Samuel 12:31

    • הַבַּרְזֶ֜לhabarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
    • הַבַּרְזֶ֗לhabarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
  • The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

    2 Samuel 23:7

    • בַרְזֶ֖לvarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

1 Kings

three uses
  • The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

    1 Kings 6:7

    • בַרְזֶ֔לvarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.

    1 Kings 8:51

    • הַבַּרְזֶֽל׃habarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
  • Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

    1 Kings 22:11

    • בַרְזֶ֑לvarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

2 Kings

two uses
  • As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”

    2 Kings 6:5

    • הַבַּרְזֶ֖לhabarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
  • “Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.

    2 Kings 6:6

    • הַבַּרְזֶֽל׃habarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron

1 Chronicles

seven uses
  • David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

    1 Chronicles 20:3

    • הַבַּרְזֶל֙habarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
  • David provided a large quantity of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with more bronze than could be weighed

    1 Chronicles 22:3

    • וּבַרְזֶ֣ל׀uvarzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and iron
  • Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.

    1 Chronicles 22:14

    • וְלַבַּרְזֶל֙velabarzelconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the iron
  • in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and may the LORD be with you.”

    1 Chronicles 22:16

    • וְלַבַּרְזֶ֖לvelabarzelconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and of the iron
  • Now with all my ability I have made provision for the house of my God—gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and slabs of marble—all in abundance.

    1 Chronicles 29:2

    • הַבַּרְזֶל֙habarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
    • לַבַּרְזֶ֔לlabarzelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the iron
  • Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

    1 Chronicles 29:7

    • וּבַרְזֶ֖לuvarzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and iron

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.

    2 Chronicles 2:7

    • וּבַבַּרְזֶ֗לuvabarzelconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in the iron
  • He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.

    2 Chronicles 2:14

    • בַּבַּרְזֶ֜לbabarzelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the iron
  • Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

    2 Chronicles 18:10

    • בַרְזֶ֑לvarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

    2 Chronicles 24:12

    • בַרְזֶל֙varzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

Job

five uses
  • by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

    Job 19:24

    • בַּרְזֶ֥לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.

    Job 20:24

    • בַּרְזֶ֑לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

    Job 28:2

    • בַּ֭רְזֶלbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.

    Job 40:18

    • בַּרְזֶֽל׃barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

    Job 41:27

    • בַּרְזֶ֑לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

Psalms

five uses
  • You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

    Psalms 2:9

    • בַּרְזֶ֑לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,

    Psalms 105:18

    • בַּ֝רְזֶ֗לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

    Psalms 107:10

    • וּבַרְזֶֽל׃uvarzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and iron
  • For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

    Psalms 107:16

    • בַרְזֶ֣לvarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,

    Psalms 149:8

    • בַרְזֶֽל׃varzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

Proverbs

two uses
  • As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

    Proverbs 27:17

    • בַּרְזֶ֣לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
    • בְּבַרְזֶ֣לbevarzelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by iron

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.

    Ecclesiastes 10:10

    • הַבַּרְזֶ֗לhabarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron

Isaiah

six uses
  • He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

    Isaiah 10:34

    • בַּבַּרְזֶ֑לbabarzelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the iron
  • The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

    Isaiah 44:12

    • בַּרְזֶל֙barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • “I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

    Isaiah 45:2

    • בַרְזֶ֖לvarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

    Isaiah 48:4

    • בַּרְזֶל֙barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

    Isaiah 60:17

    • הַבַּרְזֶל֙habarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
    • בַּרְזֶ֑לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

Jeremiah

eight uses
  • Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

    Jeremiah 1:18

    • בַּרְזֶ֛לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.

    Jeremiah 6:28

    • וּבַרְזֶ֑לuvarzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and iron
  • which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’

    Jeremiah 11:4

    • הַבַּרְזֶ֜לhabarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron
  • Can anyone smash iron—iron from the north—or bronze?

    Jeremiah 15:12

    • בַּרְזֶ֧ל׀barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
    • בַּרְזֶ֛לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

    Jeremiah 17:1

    • בַּרְזֶ֖לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • “Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’

    Jeremiah 28:13

    • בַּרְזֶֽל׃barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”

    Jeremiah 28:14

    • בַּרְזֶ֡לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

Ezekiel

six uses
  • Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

    Ezekiel 4:3

    • בַּרְזֶ֔לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
    • בַּרְזֶ֔לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.

    Ezekiel 22:18

    • וּבַרְזֶ֤לuvarzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and iron
  • Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.

    Ezekiel 22:20

    • וּבַרְזֶ֨לuvarzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and iron
  • Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

    Ezekiel 27:12

    • בַּרְזֶל֙barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron
  • and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.

    Ezekiel 27:19

    • בַּרְזֶ֤לbarzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

Amos

one use
  • This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.

    Amos 1:3

    • הַבַּרְזֶ֖לhabarzelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the iron

Micah

one use
  • Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

    Micah 4:13

    • בַּרְזֶל֙barzelnoun · masculine singulartagged: iron

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