Wood
אָעStrong’s H6086a
Appears in 288 verses of the Old Testament
In short
A is the Hebrew word usually translated “wood”, “wood of” and “tree”. It appears in 288 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.”
Meaning
- Wood, beam, timber
- Tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallowstree, trees · wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax
How it's translated
- wood 55
- wood of 50
- tree 35
- tree of 18
- the tree 18
- the wood 18
- trees of 16
- a tree 13
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 31
- Exodus 30
- Genesis 25
- 1 Kings 22
- Leviticus 20
- Isaiah 17
30 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 12:6In contextIn that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
- Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Genesis 2:9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
All 288 verses, by book
- Genesis 25
- 1:111:121:292:92:162:173:13:23:33:63:83:113:123:173:223:246:1418:418:822:322:622:722:923:1740:19
- Exodus 30
- 7:199:2510:510:1515:2525:525:1025:1325:2325:2826:1526:2627:127:630:130:531:535:735:2435:3336:2036:3137:137:437:1037:1537:2537:2838:138:6
- 1 Kings 22
- 4:335:65:85:105:186:106:156:236:316:326:336:349:1110:1110:1214:2315:2217:1017:1218:2318:3318:38
- Ezra 1
- 3:7
- Ezekiel 31
- 6:1315:215:315:617:2420:2820:3220:4721:1024:1026:1231:431:531:831:931:1431:1531:1631:1834:2736:3037:1637:1737:1937:2039:1041:1641:2241:2547:747:12
- Hosea 1
- 4:12
Hebrew dictionary
אָע a · wood
wood, beam, timber Aramaic of ets (עֵץ ": wood" H6086)
עֵץ ets · tree
: wood 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax
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.