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בְּרוֹשׁ

be.rosh

cypress

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Strong’s H1265Noun, masculine20 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

cypresses6

fir trees3

cypress3

pines2

fir1

is fir trees1

the fir trees1

a cypress1

In the text

2 Samuel 6:5בְרוֹשִׁים
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.
1 Kings 5:8בְרוֹשִׁים
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.
2 Kings 19:23בְּרֹשָׁיו
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.
2 Chronicles 3:5בְּרוֹשִׁים
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
Isaiah 41:19בְּרוֹשׁ
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
Ezekiel 27:5בְּרוֹשִׁים
They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בְּרוֹשׁ n.m. cypress or fir

1. (lit.) a noble tree

2. sim. of luxuriance, stateliness

3. as material (always pl.)

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.