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# גַּרְזֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1631

**axe** — used 4 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

axe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1631/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּרְזֶן: n.m. axe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1631/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 10:15 axe (pick, pick-axe, 3 times in SI; on format. cf. Sta294 a Ges§ 85, xi. 54)—Dt 19:5; 20:19 Is 10:15 1 K 6:7 (Co conj. also Ez 31:11).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: axe (3); an axe (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.7/#tree)

וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ בְּהִבָּ֣נֹת֔וֹ אֶֽבֶן־שְׁלֵמָ֥ה מַסָּ֖ע נִבְנָ֑ה וּמַקָּב֤וֹת וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙ כָּל־כְּלִ֣י בַרְזֶ֔ל לֹֽא־נִשְׁמַ֥ע בַּבַּ֖יִת בְּהִבָּנֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and the house when it was.built stone perfect quarry it.was.built and hammers and (the) axe any article of.iron not it.was.heard in the house when it was.built

*JPS 1917:* For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. —

[Isaiah 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.15/#tree)

הֲיִתְפָּאֵר֙ הַגַּרְזֶ֔ן עַ֖ל הַחֹצֵ֣ב בּ֑וֹ אִם־יִתְגַּדֵּ֤ל הַמַּשּׂוֹר֙ עַל־מְנִיפ֔וֹ כְּהָנִ֥יף שֵׁ֙בֶט֙ וְאֶת־מְרִימָ֔יו כְּהָרִ֥ים מַטֶּ֖ה לֹא־עֵֽץ׃

*Word for word:* does it.glorify.itself? the axe above the.\[one who\].cuts with it or? does.it.magnify.itself the saw above the.\[one who\].wields.it as wields a.rod (and) (et) \[those who\].lift.it as lifts a.staff not wood

*JPS 1917:* Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Should the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if a rod should move them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1631.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1631/): 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).