Wood
אָעStrong’s H0636a
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
A is the Aramaic word usually translated “wood”, “timber” and “beam”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.”
Meaning
- Wood, beam, timber
How it's translated
- wood 2
- and timber 1
- timber 1
- a beam 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
- Daniel 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
- Ezra 5:8Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
- Ezra 6:4With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:
- Ezra 6:11Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Aramaic dictionary
אָע a · wood
wood, beam, timber Aramaic of ets (עֵץ ": wood" H6086)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WOOD, adjective
Mad; furious.
All definitions and other forms of “wood”
WOOD, noun
- A large and thick collection of trees; a forest.
- The substance of trees; the hard substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark.
- Trees cut or sawed for the fire. wood is yet the principal fuel in the United States.
- An idol. Habakkuk 2:19
WOOD, verb intransitive
To supply or get supplies of wood
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.