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# תִּרְזָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8645

**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/1514/8645/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּרְזָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8645/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a tree, AV cypress, RV holm-tree, but very dub.: TrNHB 338 PostHast. DB Cypress; 𝔙 ilex, and so M’LeanEncy. Bib. Cypress;—abs. ת׳ Is 44:14 (+ אַלּוֹן, ‖ אֲרָזִים).

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 (1 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: a cypress (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 44:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.14/#tree)

לִכְרָת־ל֣וֹ אֲרָזִ֔ים וַיִּקַּ֤ח תִּרְזָה֙ וְאַלּ֔וֹן וַיְאַמֶּץ־ל֖וֹ בַּעֲצֵי־יָ֑עַר נָטַ֥ע אֹ֖רֶןוְגֶ֥שֶׁם יְגַדֵּֽל׃

*Word for word:* to cut.down (for himself cedars and he.took a.cypress and an.oak and he.strengthened.\[it\] for himself among.\[the\] trees of.\[the\].forest he.plants laurel and rain it.makes.\[it\].grow

*JPS 1917:* He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the ilex and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest; he planteth a bay-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8645.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8645/): 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).