Cypress
בְּרוֹשׁStrong’s H1265berosh (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.”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 6:5And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
- 1 Kings 5:8And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
- 1 Kings 5:10So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
- 1 Kings 6:15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
- 1 Kings 6:34And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
- 1 Kings 9:11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
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.]
- 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.