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Cypress

בְּרוֹשׁStrong’s H1265

berosh (be-rosh)

Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Berosh is the Hebrew word usually translated “fir trees”, “cypress” and “cypresses”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.

“Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.”
Zechariah 11:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. Cypress, fir, juniper, pinea noble tree (lit.) · of stateliness (fig.) · material for temple
How it's translated
  • fir trees 5
  • cypress 4
  • cypresses 4
  • pines its 2
  • fir 1
  • a cypress 1
  • like a cypress tree 1
  • and the cypresses 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 5
  • Isaiah 5
  • 2 Chronicles 2
  • Ezekiel 2
  • 2 Samuel 1
  • 2 Kings 1

10 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

בְּרוֹשׁ berosh · cypress

1) cypress, fir, juniper, pine 1a) a noble tree (lit.) 1b) of stateliness (fig.) 1c) material for temple

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “cypress” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CYPRESS, noun

[Latin, Gr.]

  1. A genus of plants or trees.

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.