Iron
בַּרְזֶלStrong’s H1270barzel (bar-zel)
Appears in 70 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Barzel is the Hebrew word usually translated “iron” and “like iron”. It appears in 70 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.”
Meaning
- Iron
- Tool of iron
- Harshness, strength, oppression (fig.)
How it's translated
- iron 51
- and iron 9
- the iron 7
- like iron 1
- and with iron 1
- and to the iron 1
- and of iron 1
- for the iron 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 8
- Jeremiah 7
- Joshua 6
- 1 Chronicles 6
- Job 5
- Psalms 5
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
- Numbers 31:22Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
- Numbers 35:16And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 3:11For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Deuteronomy 4:20But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
- Deuteronomy 8:9A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
All 70 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בַּרְזֶל barzel · iron
1) iron 1a) iron 1a1) iron ore 1a2) as material of furniture, utensils, implements 2) tool of iron 3) harshness, strength, oppression (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: par.zel (פַּרְזֶל "iron" H6523)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “iron” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IRON, noun
i'urn, or i'rn. [Latin ferrum, for herrum. The radical elements of this word are not easily ascertained.]
- A metal, the hardest, most common and most useful of all the metals; of a livid whitish color inclined to gray, internally composed, to appearance, of small facets, and susceptible of a fine polish.
- An instrument or utensil made of iron; as a flat-iron, a smoothing-iron.“Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?” Job 41:7
- Figuratively, strength; power; as a rod of iron Daniel 2:33
- Irons, plural fetters; chains; manacles; handcuffs. Psalms 105:18
All definitions and other forms of “iron”
I'RON, adjective
Made of iron; consisting of iron; as an iron gate; an iron bar; iron dust.
- Resembling iron in color; as an iron gray color.
- Harsh; rude; severe; miserable; as the iron age of the world.
- Binding fast; not to be broken; as the iron sleep of death.
- Hard of understanding; dull; as an iron witted fool.
- Firm; robust; as an iron constitution.
I'RON, verb transitive
To smooth with an instrument of iron
- To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
- To furnish or arm with iron
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.