Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1631
גַּרְזֶן
garzengar-zen'
axe
4 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 H1631is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1631
an axe
The King James renders it: ax.
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
garzen is rendered "axe". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 19:5If 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.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
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 19:5בַגַּרְזֶן֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- an axe1
- and the axe1
- by the axe1
- the axe1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| גַּרְגְּרוֹת | gargeroth | neck | Uses4 |
| גַּרְמִי | Garmi | Garmite | Uses1 |
| גַּרְגַּר | gargar | berry | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- בַגַּרְזֶן֙1
- גַּרְזֶ֔ן1
- הַגַּרְזֶ֔ן1
- וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
two uses
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.
- בַגַּרְזֶן֙vagarzenpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the axe
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
- גַּרְזֶ֔ןgarzennoun · masculine singulartagged: an axe
1 Kings
one use
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.
- וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙vehagarzenconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the axe
Isaiah
one use
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
- הַגַּרְזֶ֔ןhagarzenthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the axe
The letters
Gematria 260· 910 mispar gadol
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 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.