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# תְּאַשּׁוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8391

**box-tree** — used 2 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

box-tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8391/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּאַשּׁוּר: n.f. box-tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8391/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. box-tree (on form cf. Sta§ 267) Is 14:19; 60:13 Ez 27:6 (cf. supr.) a small evergreen tree about 20 feet high, growing on Lebanon, Bo Tristr Nat. Hist. Bib. 339, so 𝔙 𝔗 RV. (Others sherbîn, a species of cedar distinguished by the smallness of its cones and the upward direction of its branches, cf. Thes RobGes.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 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: box tree (1); box tree\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 41:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.19/#tree)

אֶתֵּ֤ן בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ אֶ֣רֶז שִׁטָּ֔ה וַהֲדַ֖ס וְעֵ֣ץ שָׁ֑מֶן אָשִׂ֣ים בָּעֲרָבָ֗ה בְּר֛וֹשׁ תִּדְהָ֥ר וּתְאַשּׁ֖וּר יַחְדָּֽו׃

*Word for word:* I.will.put in the wilderness cedar\[s\] acacia.tree\[s\] and myrtle.tree\[s\] and tree\[s\] of.oil I.will.set in the.desert plain cypress\[es\] elm\[s\] and box.tree\[s\] together

*JPS 1917:* I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together;

[Isaiah 60:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.13/#tree)

כְּב֤וֹד הַלְּבָנוֹן֙ אֵלַ֣יִךְ יָב֔וֹא בְּר֛וֹשׁ תִּדְהָ֥ר וּתְאַשּׁ֖וּר יַחְדָּ֑ו לְפָאֵר֙ מְק֣וֹם מִקְדָּשִׁ֔י וּמְק֥וֹם רַגְלַ֖י אֲכַבֵּֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.splendor of.(the) Lebanon to you it.will.come cypress elm and box.tree together to beautify the.place my.sanctuary my and the.place my.feet my I.will.glorify

*JPS 1917:* The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, the plane-tree and the larch together; to beautify the place of My sanctuary, and I will make the place of My feet glorious.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8391.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8391/): 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).