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# בְּרוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1266

**cypress** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cypress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1266/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּרוֹת: n.m. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1266/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id. (Aramaic (prob. North-Palest.) form of same) only pl. בְּרוֹתִים ‖ אֲרָזִים Ct 1:17; ref. to arbour of trees as their home, cf. אֶרֶז.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] cypress(es) (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.17/#tree)

קֹר֤וֹת בָּתֵּ֙ינוּ֙ אֲרָזִ֔ים רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ בְּרוֹתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.beams our.houses our \[are\].cedar(s) rafters our \[are\].cypress(es)

*JPS 1917:* The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1266/): 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).