Myrtle
הֲדַסStrong’s H1918hadas (ha-das)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hadas is the Hebrew word usually translated “myrtle trees”, “myrtle” and “myrtle tree”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.”
Meaning
- Myrtle (tree)
How it's translated
- the myrtle trees 3
- myrtle 1
- and myrtle tree 1
- a myrtle tree 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 3
- Isaiah 2
- Nehemiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 1:10In contextAnd the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
- Zechariah 1:11In contextAnd they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
- Nehemiah 8:15And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
- Isaiah 41:19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
- Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Hebrew dictionary
הֲדַס hadas · myrtle
myrtle (tree)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “myrtle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MYR'TLE, noun
[Latin myrtus.]
A plant of the genus Myrtus, of several species. The common myrtle rises with a shrubby upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close full head, closely garnished with oval lanceolate leaves. It has numerous small, pale flowers from the axillas, singly on each footstalk.
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.