108 occurrences

'Wood' in the Bible

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

Verse ConceptsFlood, TheCoatsBitumen and tarMineralsNoah's ArkInside And OutWeedstructure

Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamDonkeysMorningAnimals, Types OfRising EarlySplitting WoodFirewoodThose Who Rose EarlyPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysTwo Other Men

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamKnifesGoing TogetherBurning SacrificesFirewoodCarrying Other Loads

Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father?" "What is it, my son?" he replied. "Here is the fire and the wood," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

Verse ConceptsFireLambsBurning SacrificesFirewoodBehold Me!Sheep And GoatsWhere Are Things?

When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Verse ConceptsAltarsAbrahamBindingPutting In OrderBuilding AltarsFirewoodTying Up

But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.

Verse ConceptsAlmondsWhiteTreesPolesSkinningBlack And White

"They are to make an ark of acacia wood -- its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.

Verse ConceptsBreadthWeights And Measures, LinearAcacia WoodChestsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold,

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodOverlaid With Gold

"You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldOverlaid With WoodCarrying Holy Things

"You are to make the frames for the tabernacle out of acacia wood as uprights.

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodMaking The Tabernacle

"You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

Verse ConceptsFive Things

You are to hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in four silver bases.

Verse ConceptsHooksFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

You are to make for the hanging five posts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodFive ThingsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The TabernaclBronze Items For The Tabernacle

"You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightWoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSacrifice On The Bronze AltarSetting Up The Bronze Altar

You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.

Verse ConceptsWoodOverlaid With Bronze

"You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.

Verse ConceptsAcacia Wood

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Verse ConceptsAltar Of IncenseOverlaid With Gold

and with cutting and setting stone, and with cutting wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofSplitting WoodCutting StonesWood And Stonewoodworkingcraftsmanship

Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

Verse ConceptsBronze

and in cutting stones for their setting, and in cutting wood, to do work in every artistic craft.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCutting StonesJewellerywoodworkingcraftsmanship

He made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights.

Verse ConceptsTrees

He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle

Verse ConceptsFive Things

He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of Temple Furniture

He made poles of acacia wood, overlaid them with gold,

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With Gold

He made the table of acacia wood; its length was three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodDimensions Of Temple Furniture

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldCarrying Holy Things

He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half -- a square -- and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it.

Verse ConceptsBreadthAltar Of IncenseSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With Gold

He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide -- it was square -- and its height was four feet six inches.

Verse ConceptsWoodAcacia WoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSetting Up The Bronze Altar

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodOverlaid With BronzeOverlaid With Wood

and the sons of Aaron, the priest, must put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

Verse ConceptsPutting In OrderBurning SacrificesFirewood

Then the sons of Aaron, the priests, must arrange the parts with the head and the suet on the wood that is in the fire on the altar.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesPutting In OrderFat Of The Sacrifices

Next, the one presenting the offering must cut it into parts, with its head and its suet, and the priest must arrange them on the wood which is in the fire, on the altar.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Cut In PiecesPutting In OrderFirewoodFat Of The Sacrifices

and tear it open by its wings without dividing it into two parts. Finally, the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which is in the fire -- it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsWingsAnimals Torn To PiecesWings Of BirdsRefreshing God

Then the sons of Aaron must offer it up in smoke on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the wood in the fire as a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAromasPleasing GodSmellsRefreshing God

all the rest of the bull -- he must bring outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile.

Verse ConceptsOutside The CampBurning SacrificesClean Objects

but the fire which is on the altar must be kept burning on it. It must not be extinguished. So the priest must kindle wood on it morning by morning, and he must arrange the burnt offering on it and offer the fat of the peace offering up in smoke on it.

Verse ConceptsMorning WorshipOfferingsUnceasingBurning SacrificesFirewoodFat Of The Sacrifices

Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean -- any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

Verse ConceptsDressClean ObjectsUnclean Until Evening

He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesOutside The CityUnclean Things

When the Israelites were in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtIsrael In The WildernessFirewoodSabbath Violated

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community.

You must purify each garment and everything that is made of skin, everything made of goat's hair, and everything made of wood."

Verse ConceptsDressAnimal SkinsWashing ClothesHairclothClean Clothes

So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ConstructionToolsTwo Stone Tablets

Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

Verse ConceptsStonesWoodNot Knowing PeopleDifferent GodsWood And Stone

The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelUnknown GodsDifferent GodsWood And Stone

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water --

Verse ConceptsDrawing WaterFirewoodAliens

You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

Verse ConceptsGoldStones

Then build an altar for the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down."

Verse ConceptsHeightWoodAltars, Built ByAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsFirewood

The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsWoodCartsSplitting WoodFirewood

Araunah told David, "My lord the king may take whatever he wishes and offer it. Look! Here are oxen for burnt offerings, and threshing sledges and harnesses for wood.

Verse ConceptsThreshingYokesFirewood

Solomon's and Hiram's construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.

Verse ConceptsCarpentersBuildingHousesImmigrantscraftsmanshipconstruction

He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

Verse ConceptsCedar Wood

He also made two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves.

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. King Asa used the materials to build up Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsExemptCarrying Other LoadsWood And Stone

So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, "Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink."

Verse ConceptsWaterDrinking WaterFirewoodgathering

Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Cut In PiecesFirewoodChoosing ThingsTwo Animals

Then he said, "Fill four water jars and pour the water on the offering and the wood." When they had done so, he said, "Do it again." So they did it again. Then he said, "Do it a third time." So they did it a third time.

Verse ConceptsActing Three Times

Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.

Verse ConceptsFireAnswers By FireFire From HeavenBurning Sacrifices

as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the Lord's temple and also paid for all the other expenses.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsWood And Stonefreemasonry

They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

Verse ConceptsCreativityStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stone

including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.

Verse ConceptsCarpentersWood And Stonewoodworkingfreemasonry

Ornan told David, "You can have it! My master, the king, may do what he wants. Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you."

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersThreshingWoodFirewood

Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord's temple. I have stored up 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

Verse ConceptsBronzeCoinageGoldSilverBrassAmassing SilverAmassing Bronze

So I have made every effort to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.

Verse ConceptsGemsIronJewelsMineralsStonesPrecious StonesColor

whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stones, and wood, as well as purple, violet, white, and crimson fabrics. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and understands any design given to him. He will work with your skilled craftsmen and the skilled craftsmen of my lord David your father.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonengraving

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. He used the materials to build up Geba and Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsStones

They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair.

Verse ConceptsBuildingFidelityCarpentersMasonswoodworking

"We -- the priests, the Levites, and the people -- have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsWoodThe Altar Of The LordFirewood

I also provided for the wood offering at the appointed times and also for the first fruits. Please remember me for good, O my God.

Verse ConceptsPleasing GodFirewoodFirst fruits

It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Verse ConceptsBronzeIronWood

Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindle strife.

Verse ConceptsArguingDissensionContentiousnessCharcoal

King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself of wood imported from Lebanon.

Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

Verse ConceptsAxesSelf ConfidenceToolsWoodInfidelity To GodSawsClubsDo Not Be ProudScoffers

They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

Verse ConceptsMonotheismStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stonestatues

To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot; he then seeks a skilled craftsman to make an idol that will not fall over.

Verse ConceptsUnreliabilityWisdom, Human NaturedissatisfactionMotionlessnessSkilled PeopleNo DecayMoving Oncraftsmanshipimage

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: 'I burned half of it in the fire -- yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?'

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

Instead of bronze, I will bring you gold, instead of iron, I will bring you silver, instead of wood, I will bring you bronze, instead of stones, I will bring you iron. I will make prosperity your overseer, and vindication your sovereign ruler.

Verse ConceptsBronzeGoldIronMineralsSilver

As when fire ignites dry wood, or fire makes water boil, let your adversaries know who you are, and may the nations shake at your presence!

Verse ConceptsTrembling

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.

Verse ConceptsWoodAnimismPolluting The LandWorship At TreesInfidelityadultry

Because of that, the Lord, the God who rules over all, said to me, "Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up."

Verse ConceptsSoldiersFire Of God's WordSpeaking The Word God GivesspeakingThe Power Of Wordspeople

We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingDrinking WaterFirewoodPaying For Goods

"Son of man, of all the woody branches among the trees of the forest, what happens to the wood of the vine?

Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

Verse ConceptsPegs

"Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire -- so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem as fuel.

Verse ConceptsThings Like People

"'What you plan will never happen. You say, "We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone."

Verse ConceptsWoodNeverLike The NationsUnfulfilled WordWood And Stone

They will not need to take wood from the field or cut down trees from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons. They will take the loot from those who looted them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them, declares the sovereign Lord.

Verse ConceptsForestsDisarmamentPlunderingFirewoodWeapons For Fuel

as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

Verse ConceptsNarrownessWindows For The TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

The altar was of wood, 5? feet high, with its length 3? feet; its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before the Lord."

Verse ConceptsTablesWood

On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy of wood on the front of the outside porch.

Verse ConceptsCherubim Depicted

As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Verse ConceptsGoldIronDrunkenness, Examples OfBrassDrinking WineWood And StoneBronze For Idols

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone -- gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

Verse ConceptsDeafnessFaultsConcubinesGovernmentGreed, Condemnation OfHand Of GodIronLife, HumanUnreliabilityDrinking WineGod Giving BreathIdols Not SeeingBeing Without UnderstandingNature Of GodOther WivesTemple Utensils RemovedWood And StoneBronze For Idols

I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אע 
'a` (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

חרשׁ 
Choresh 
Usage: 7

יער 
Ya`ar 
Usage: 58

עץ 
`ets 
Usage: 329

ξύλινος 
Xulinos 
of wood
Usage: 2

ξύλον 
Xulon 
Usage: 14

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