אָע
ʼâʻ · H636 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Thing
- Crossbeam, rafterRoof, housetop9 verses
Meanings
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wood
The hard substance that makes up most of a tree, carved or cut and assembled into objects
ExamplesDaniel 5:4 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
Daniel 5:23 but you have risen up against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.
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beam
A single piece of wood taken from a tree, cut and finished, and used for building and construction
ExamplesEzra 5:8 “May it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God which is being built with large stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is being performed with great care and is succeeding in their hands.
Ezra 6:4 with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. And the cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.
Ezra 6:11 “And I issued a decree that any person who violates this decree, a timber shall be pulled out of his house and he shall be impaled on it; and his house shall be turned into a refuse heap on account of this.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נְסַחpull down 1
- שׂוּםcommand 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ξύλον xýlon · G3586 · wood, firewood
- Greek ξύλον directly translates Hebrew אָע as the standard Septuagintal rendering for timber/wood as building material or fuel.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Trees001002007002
- Daniel 5:4 recounts that Belshazzar and his guests “drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone.”
- Buildings001003002001
- Ezra 6:4 records Cyrus's decree concerning the temple's reconstruction, “with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. And the cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.”
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H636. a אָע noun masculineEzr 5:8 wood (so ᵑ7, for עָע; Egyptian Aramaic עק S-CH5;…
אָע noun masculineEzr 5:8 wood (so ᵑ7, for עָע; Egyptian Aramaic עק S-CH5; Biblical Hebrew עֵץ, √ II. עצה); —
1 absolute ׳א timber, for building Ezr 5:8; Ezr 6:4; beam Ezr 6:11.
2 emphatic אָעָא wood, material of idols Dan 5:4, Dan 5:23.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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