עֵץ
ʻêts · ates
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6095 (עָצָה);
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
- a tree (from its firmness)
- hence, wood (plural sticks)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] carpenter, gallows, helve, [phrase] pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to pursue the straight path
To see and know that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֵץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
330 occurrences · 330 OT · 0 NT · 113 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- wood51 · 26%
- tree29 · 15%
- trees26 · 13%
- of wood13 · 7%
- timber7 · 4%
- the wood7 · 4%
- of the tree6 · 3%
- the trees6 · 3%
- stick4 · 2%
- of a tree4 · 2%
- of the trees3 · 2%
- every tree3 · 2%
- over the trees3 · 2%
- sticks3 · 2%
- and the tree3 · 2%
- and all the trees3 · 2%
- the tree3 · 2%
- among the trees3 · 2%
- on the gallows3 · 2%
- and timber3 · 2%
- him on the wood2 · 1%
- upon the wood2 · 1%
- and the wood2 · 1%
- of every tree2 · 1%
- and every tree2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.