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Strong's #2793: choresh (pronounced kho'-resh)

from 2790; a forest (perhaps as furnishing the material for fabric):--bough, forest, shroud, wood.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chôresh

1) wood, wooded height, forest, wooded area

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H2790



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

1 Samuel 23:15: "and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood."
1 Samuel 23:16: "and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand"
1 Samuel 23:18: "the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house."
1 Samuel 23:19: "hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south"
2 Chronicles 27:4: "cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers."
Isaiah 17:9: "cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because"
Ezekiel 31:3: "with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top"









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