Tamarisk
אֵ֫שֶׁלStrong’s H0815eshel (e-shel)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eshel is the Hebrew word usually translated “tamarisk tree”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.”
Meaning
- Tamarisk tree
How it's translated
- the tamarisk tree 2
- a tamarisk tree 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 22:6When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
- 1 Samuel 31:13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Hebrew dictionary
אֵ֫שֶׁל eshel · tamarisk
tamarisk tree
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tamarisk” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TAM'ARISK, noun
A tree or shrub of the genus Tamarix, of several species.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.