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ets H6086

עֵץ (ets) means “tree: wood” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

עֵץ Hebrew · H6086 330 tagged occurrences in 288 verses

Pronunciation guide: ates Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H6086G

עֵץ · ets · tree: wood

: wood 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

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TBESH · H6086H

עֵץ · ets · tree

: tree 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

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TBESH · H6086I

עֵץ · ets · tree: stick

: stick/log 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

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TBESH · H6086J

עֵץ · ets · tree: stake

: stake/shaft 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

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TBESH · H6086K

עֵץ · ets · tree: carpenter

: carpenter/wood(worker) 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H6095 (עָצָה); a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)

KJV glosses: [phrase] carpenter, gallows, helve, [phrase] pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.

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How translators render H6086

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
wood	62
tree	27
the trees	25
trees	20
the wood	13
of wood	11
logs	9
the tree	9
timber	9
a tree	6
the gallows	6
among the trees	5
and wood	4
is a tree	4
like a tree	4
stick	4
for the wood	3
of the trees	3
the stick	3
and the timbers	2
and the trees	2
and trees	2
from the tree	2
gods of wood	2
its timbers	2
made of wood	2
sticks	2
the shaft	2
then the trees	2
wooden	2
a gallows	1
a high wooden	1
a log	1
a stick	1
a wood	1
among the stalks	1
and he had the gallows	1
and that it was	1
and the tree	1
and the wood	1
and there was a wooden	1
and timber	1
and with the wood	1
any other	1
are the trees	1
as a stick	1
as well as timbers	1
can wood	1
carpenters	1
either in a tree	1
even in the vessels of wood	1
for a tree	1
from the trees	1
from the woodwork	1
in a woodpile	1
is a gallows	1
its trees	1
kind of tree	1
like trees	1
lumber	1
of a tree	1
of the tree	1
of trees	1
of wood instruments	1
on any tree	1
on the trees	1
one day the trees	1
or with the shaft	1
our wood	1
out of the timber	1
some trees	1
such stick	1
the handle	1
the logs	1
the timber	1
their wooden idols	1
to a tree	1
to the tree	1
to wood	1
tree down	1
under loads of wood	1
were of wood	1
were the tree	1
when the sticks	1
where it	1
with	1
with beams	1
your trees	1
your wood	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
wood	53
tree	29
trees	26
of wood	15
timber	8
the wood	7
a tree	6
of the tree	6
the trees	6
every tree	4
of a tree	4
stick	4
all the trees	3
among the trees	3
and all the trees	3
and the tree	3
and timber	3
of the trees	3
on the gallows	3
on wood	3
over the trees	3
sticks	3
the tree	3
upon the wood	3
and every tree	2
and the staff	2
and the timber	2
and the trees	2
and the wood	2
and wood	2
for the tree	2
for wood	2
me timber	2
no wood	2
of every tree	2
on a tree	2
on the wood	2
the stick	2
upon the gallows	2
with wood	2
a stick	1
above all the trees	1
all manner of trees	1
all thy trees	1
all trees	1
also of the tree	1
among the wood	1
and a tree	1
and concerning timber	1
and for the wood	1
and for wood	1
and he shall be like a tree	1
and if the tree	1
and in timber	1
and lay the wood	1
and on the wood	1
and the sticks	1
and thy timber	1
and upon the trees	1
and with stocks	1
as a tree	1
as the trees	1
behold also the gallows	1
branches	1
but of the tree	1
by them under the tree	1
concerning timber	1
counsel at their stocks	1
for he shall be as a tree	1
for him and all the trees	1
for himself among the trees	1
for the wood	1
from the helve	1
from the tree	1
from the trees	1
him a tree	1
him on a tree	1
him on the wood	1
in any tree	1
in the trees	1
it is become like a stick	1
it with the timber	1
like a tree	1
me of the tree	1
more than any tree	1
neither shall the trees	1
nor any tree	1
not trees	1
of all manner of trees	1
of all trees	1
of any trees	1
of it and the timber	1
of sticks	1
of the timber	1
of the wood	1
of thy wood	1
of timber	1
of trees	1
off the trees	1
only the trees	1
our wood	1
planks	1
shall wood	1
so that all the trees	1
staff	1
that the tree	1
the carpenter	1
the gallows	1
the staff	1
the stock	1
thee on a tree	1
them with the stalks	1
then shall the trees	1
therein and all the trees	1
therein then shall all the trees	1
to a stock	1
to the carpenters	1
to the end that none of all the trees	1
to the wood	1
under the tree	1
under the wood	1
unto all the trees	1
unto him let a gallows	1
unto the trees	1
upon the tree	1
upon the trees	1
where the tree	1
which is among the trees	1
with all trees	1
with the stick	1
with the trees	1
with the wood	1

Verses containing H6086

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Proverbs 11:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
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Proverbs 13:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
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Proverbs 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
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Proverbs 26:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
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Proverbs 26:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
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Ecclesiastes 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.
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Ecclesiastes 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
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Ecclesiastes 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.
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Ecclesiastes 11:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
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Song of Solomon 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
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Song of Solomon 3:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.
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Song of Solomon 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
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Isaiah 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
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Isaiah 10:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
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Isaiah 10:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
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Isaiah 30:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
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Isaiah 37:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
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Isaiah 40:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.
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Isaiah 41:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
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Isaiah 44:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
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Isaiah 44:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
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Isaiah 44:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
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Isaiah 44:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
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Isaiah 45:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
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Isaiah 55:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
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Isaiah 56:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
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Isaiah 57:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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Isaiah 60:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.
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Isaiah 65:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
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Jeremiah 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
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Jeremiah 2:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
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Jeremiah 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
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Jeremiah 3:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
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Jeremiah 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
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Jeremiah 7:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
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Jeremiah 7:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
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Jeremiah 10:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
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Jeremiah 10:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
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Jeremiah 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
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Jeremiah 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
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Jeremiah 17:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
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Jeremiah 28:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’
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Jeremiah 46:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.
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Lamentations 4:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
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Lamentations 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
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Lamentations 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
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Ezekiel 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
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Ezekiel 15:2 · BSB · 3 occurrences
“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?
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Ezekiel 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?
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