Hebrew noun (masculine) · H730
אֶרֶז
erezeh-rez'
cedar
73 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼerez
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H730is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 17 of 39Old Testament books
- 44spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H730
a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots)
The King James renders it: cedar (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
erez is rendered "cedar". It stands 73 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 14:4the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
- The Greek text spells it forty-four different ways.
The first use
the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
Leviticus 14:4אֶ֔רֶז
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty of the word's seventy-three 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
- cedars27
- the cedar8
- cedar7
- cedars of6
- a cedar4
- the cedars4
- with the cedar3
- and cedar2
- cedars its2
- among the cedars1
- and cedars1
- cedars your1
and 7 more, 73 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.
The words it stands beside
All 73, 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
- אֲרָזִ֔ים8
- אֶ֔רֶז4
- אֲרָזִֽים׃4
- אֲרָזִ֑ים3
- אֲרָזִ֖ים3
- הָאֶ֛רֶז3
- הָאֲרָזִ֗ים3
- אֶ֣רֶז2
- אָֽרֶז׃2
- אַרְזֵ֥י2
- אַרְזֵ֣י2
- אֲרָזָיו֙2
and 32 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural27HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular11HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular8HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmpc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular4HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural4HTd/Ncmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural3HRd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2ms
Leviticus
five uses
the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
- אֶ֔רֶזʾereznoun · masculine singulartagged: cedar
And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
- הָאֶ֛רֶזhaerezthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cedar
He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;
- אֶ֔רֶזʾereznoun · masculine singulartagged: cedar
Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
- הָ֠אֶרֶזhaerezthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cedar
And he shall cleanse the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
- הָאֶ֛רֶזhaerezthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cedar
Numbers
two uses
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
- אֶ֛רֶזʾereznoun · masculine singulartagged: cedar
They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
- כַּאֲרָזִ֖יםkaarazimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like cedars
Judges
one use
But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
- אַרְזֵ֥יʾarzeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cedars of
2 Samuel
three uses
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.
- אֲרָזִ֔יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
- אֲרָזִ֑יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
- אֲרָזִֽים׃ʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
1 Kings
twenty uses
He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
- הָאֶ֙רֶז֙haerezthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cedar
Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.”
- אֲרָזִ֜יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
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.
- אֲרָזִ֖יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
- אֲרָזִ֛יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
- בָּאֲרָזִֽים׃baarazimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with the cedars
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
- אֲרָזִֽים׃ פʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
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.
- אֲרָזִ֔יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- אֲרָזִ֔יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
- וְאֶ֤רֶזveerezconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and cedar
- אֶ֔רֶזʾereznoun · masculine singulartagged: cedar
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- אָֽרֶז׃ʾareznoun · masculine singulartagged: cedar
Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
- אֲרָזִֽים׃ʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
- אֲרָזִ֔יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
- אֲרָזִ֖יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
- בָּאֶ֗רֶזbaerezpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the cedar
In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
- בָּאֶ֔רֶזbaerezpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the cedar
Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
- וָאָֽרֶז׃vaarezconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and cedar
The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.
- אֲרָזִ֑יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
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.
- אֲרָזִ֨יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- הָאֲרָזִ֗יםhaarazimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the cedars
2 Kings
two uses
But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
- הָאֶ֜רֶזhaerezthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cedar
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.
- אֲרָזָיו֙ʾarazavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: cedars its
1 Chronicles
five uses
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters, to build a palace for him.
- אֲרָזִ֔יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”
- הָֽאֲרָזִ֔יםhaarazimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the cedars
In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
- אֲרָזִֽים׃ʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
and more cedar logs than could be counted; for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought a large quantity of cedar logs to David.
- אֲרָזִ֖יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
- אֲרָזִ֛יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
2 Chronicles
five uses
The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- הָאֲרָזִ֗יםhaarazimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the cedars
Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.
- אֲרָזִ֔יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
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
- אֲרָזִ֜יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- הָאֲרָזִ֗יםhaarazimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the cedars
But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
- הָאֶ֜רֶזhaerezthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cedar
Ezra
one use
They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
- אֲרָזִ֤יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
Job
one use
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
- אָ֑רֶזʾareznoun · masculine singulartagged: a cedar
Psalms
six uses
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
- אֲרָזִ֑יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
- אַרְזֵ֥יʾarzeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cedars of
The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.
- אַֽרְזֵי־ʾarzei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cedars of
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- כְּאֶ֖רֶזkeerezpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a cedar
The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,
- אַֽרְזֵ֥יʾarzeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cedars of
mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,
- אֲרָזִֽים׃ʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
Song of Solomon
three uses
The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
- אֲרָזִ֔יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
- כָּאֲרָזִֽים׃kaarazimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the cedars
If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
- אָֽרֶז׃ʾareznoun · masculine singulartagged: cedar
Isaiah
six uses
against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
- אַרְזֵ֣יʾarzeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cedars of
“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
- וַאֲרָזִ֖יםvaarazimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and cedars
Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
- אַרְזֵ֣יʾarzeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cedars of
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.
- אֲרָזָיו֙ʾarazavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: cedars its
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
- אֶ֣רֶזʾereznoun · masculine singulartagged: cedar
He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
- אֲרָזִ֔יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
Jeremiah
four uses
I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
- אֲרָזֶ֔יךָʾarazeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: cedars your
who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
- בָּאָ֔רֶזbaarezpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the cedar
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
- בָאָ֑רֶזvaarezpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cedar
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
- בָּֽאֲרָזִ֑יםbaarazimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the cedars
Ezekiel
six uses
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers of many colors, came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.
- הָאָֽרֶז׃haarezthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cedar
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
- הָאֶ֛רֶזhaerezthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cedar
I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.
- לְאֶ֣רֶזleerezpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a cedar
They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
- אֶ֤רֶזʾereznoun · masculine singulartagged: a cedar
Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.
- אֶ֣רֶזʾereznoun · masculine singulartagged: a cedar
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.
- אֲרָזִ֣יםʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
Amos
one use
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
- אֲרָזִים֙ʾarazimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cedars
Zechariah
two uses
Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
- בַּאֲרָזֶֽיךָ׃baarazeikhapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: in cedars your
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!
- אֶ֔רֶזʾereznoun · masculine singulartagged: a cedar
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.
