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Ezekiel 27:5

“They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

בְּרוֹשׁbᵉrôwsh · ber-osh'
H1265 · Hebrew

Definition: a cypress (?) tree; hence, a lance or a musical instrument (as made of that wood)
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
KJV renderings: fir (tree).
Grammar: בְּרוֹשִׁ֤ים — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
Code HNcmpa
Usage: Occurs 20 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Samuel 6:5 1 Kings 5:22 1 Kings 5:24 1 Kings 6:15 1 Kings 6:34

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בְּרוֹשׁ here.

Verse 4 Verse 6

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.