Wood
חֹ֫רֶשׁStrong’s H2793choresh (cho-resh)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choresh is the Hebrew word usually translated “at horesh”, “horesh” and “wooded areas”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.”
Meaning
- This name means wood, forest
- Wood, wooded height, forest, wooded area.
How it's translated
- at horesh 3
- horesh 1
- and in the wooded areas 1
- the forest 1
- and forest 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 23:16And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
- 1 Samuel 23:18And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
- 1 Samuel 23:19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
- 2 Chronicles 27:4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
- Isaiah 17:9In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
- Ezekiel 31:3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫רֶשׁ choresh · Horesh
This name means wood, forest
חֹ֫רֶשׁ choresh · wood
1) wood, wooded height, forest, wooded area.
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WOOD, adjective
Mad; furious.
All definitions and other forms of “wood”
WOOD, noun
- A large and thick collection of trees; a forest.
- The substance of trees; the hard substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark.
- Trees cut or sawed for the fire. wood is yet the principal fuel in the United States.
- An idol. Habakkuk 2:19
WOOD, verb intransitive
To supply or get supplies of wood
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.