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Strong's #1265: browsh (pronounced ber-osh')

of uncertain derivation; a cypress (?) tree; hence, a lance or a musical instrument (as made of that wood):--fir (tree).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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berôsh

1) cypress, fir, juniper, pine

1a) a noble tree (literally)

1b) of stateliness (figuratively)

1c) material for temple

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: of uncertain derivation



Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

2 Samuel 6:5: "before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels,"
1 Kings 5:8: "concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir."
1 Kings 5:10: "Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all"
1 Kings 6:15: "with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir."
1 Kings 6:34: "And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door"
1 Kings 9:11: "Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,)"
2 Kings 19:23: "the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest"
2 Chronicles 2:8: "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for"
2 Chronicles 3:5: "And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold,"
Psalms 104:17: "Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house."
Isaiah 14:8: "Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down,"
Isaiah 37:24: "the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest"
Isaiah 41:19: "tree; I will set the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:"
Isaiah 55:13: "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree:"
Isaiah 60:13: "of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together,"
Ezekiel 27:5: "all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars"
Ezekiel 31:8: "of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs,"
Hosea 14:8: "him, and observed him: I fir tree. From me is thy fruit found."
Nahum 2:3: "in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken."
Zechariah 11:2: "Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled:"









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