Pine
אֲשֻׁרִיםStrong’s H0839ashur (a-shur)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ashur is the Hebrew word usually translated “pine”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.”
Meaning
- Pine wood
How it's translated
- pine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אֲשֻׁרִים ashur · pine
pine wood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PINE, noun
[Latin pinus.]
A tree of the genus Pinus, of many species, some of which furnish timber of the most valuable kind. The species which usually bear this name in the United States, are the white pine Pinus strobus, the prince of our forests; the yellow pine Pinus resinosa; and the pitch pine Pinus rigida. The other species of this genus are called by other names, a fir, hemlock, larch, spruce, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “pine”
PINE, verb intransitive
- To languish; to lose flesh or wear away under any distress of anxiety of mind; to grow lean; followed sometimes by away.“Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away for your iniquities” Ezekiel 24:23
- To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; usually followed by for.
PINE, verb transitive
To wear out; to make to languish.
- To grieve for; to bemoan in silence.
PINE, noun
Woe; want; penury; misery.
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.