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# אֵשֶׁל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H815

**tamarisk-tree** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tamarisk-tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/815/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵ֫שֶׁל: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/815/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. tamarisk-tree (Arabic أَثْلٌ Sab. אתֿל Sab.Denkm.65 cf. DHMBS ii. 958; on an Aramaic אַתְלָא v. LöwNo. 38; cf. TristrFFP 250) planted by Abraham Gn 21:33 (J); in 1 S 22:6 Saul is dwelling בַּגִּבְעָה תַּחַת־הָאֵשֶׁל בָּרָמָה; 31:13 Saul and his sons are buried תַּחַת־הָא׳; it was perhaps a sacred tree, marking shrine.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tree (2); a tamarisk tree (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 21:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.33/#tree)

וַיִּטַּ֥ע אֶ֖שֶׁל בִּבְאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע בְאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע וַיִּ֨קְרָא־שָׁ֔ם בְּשֵׁ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה אֵ֥ל עוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.planted a.tamarisk.tree in Beer Sheba and he.called there on the.name of.Yahweh \[the\].God of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* And Abraham planted a tamarisk-tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

[1 Samuel 31:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.31.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.31.13/#tree)

וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת־עַצְמֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ תַֽחַת־הָאֶ֖שֶׁל בְּיָבֵ֑שָׁה וַיָּצֻ֖מוּ שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) bones their and they.buried.\[them\] under the.tamarisk tree in Jabesh and they.fasted seven days

*JPS 1917:* And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/815.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/815/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).