Mast
תֹּ֫רֶןStrong’s H8650toren (to-ren)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Toren is the Hebrew word usually translated “like flagstaff”, “mast their” and “mast”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.”
Meaning
- Beacon, mast, flagpole
How it's translated
- like flagstaff 1
- mast their 1
- a mast 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 33:23Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
- Ezekiel 27:5They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
Hebrew dictionary
תֹּ֫רֶן toren · mast
beacon, mast, flagpole
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mast” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
M'AST, noun
A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards, sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “mast”
M'AST, noun
The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]
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.