Axe
גַּרְזֶןStrong’s H1631garzen (gar-zen)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Garzen is the Hebrew word usually translated “axe”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:”
Meaning
- Axe
How it's translated
- by the axe 1
- an axe 1
- and axe 1
- the axe 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 20:19When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
- 1 Kings 6:7And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
- Isaiah 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Hebrew dictionary
גַּרְזֶן garzen · axe
axe
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.