Brushwood
הֶ֫מֶסStrong’s H2003hamas (ha-mas)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Hamas is the Hebrew word usually translated “brushwood”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!”
Meaning
- Brushwood
How it's translated
- brushwood 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
הֶ֫מֶס hamas · brushwood
brushwood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “brushwood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRUSH'WOOD, noun
[brush and wood.]
Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs; also, branches of trees cut off.
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.