4 occurrences

'Gallows' in the Bible

Within three more days, Pharaoh will behead you and hang you on gallows, where birds will eat your flesh from you."

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyHeadsRemoving HeadsAnimals Eating PeopleLifting HeadsEating CorpsesBirds EatingPeople Hung To Death

After this, Joshua struck those kings down, executing them, and hanged them on five gallows until sunset.

Verse ConceptsGallowsHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfFive ThingsKilling KingsAction Until EveningPeople Hung To Death

When evening had come, Joshua gave a command to remove the bodies from the gallows and bury them in the cave where they had hidden. The army sealed the mouth of the cave with large stones that remain there to this very day.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsCaves For BuryingCorpses Of Other PeoplePlaces To This Day

I hereby also decree that whoever shall alter the wording of this edict, let his residence be torn down for timber to build a gallows, hang him on it, and turn his home into an outhouse.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsGallowsDeath penaltyHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfPiercingsRubbish

Bible Theasaurus

Butcher (6 instances)
Scaffold (1 instance)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עץ 
`ets 
Usage: 329

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.