a · wood, beam

What it means

a (אָע) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “wood, beam”.

Wood, tree; beam (Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "ets".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Wood or a beam of wood, in Aramaic.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• timber ×2
• wood ×2
• beam ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra×3
• Daniel×2

• Ezra 5:8

  Let it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great Elah; and it is being built with great stones, and timber is being laid in the walls; and that work is being done with diligence and prospers in their hands.

• Ezra 6:4

  three courses of great stones and a course of new timber; and let the cost be paid from the house of the king.

• Ezra 6:11

  And by me an order is given that for any man who changes this decree, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and, lifted up, he shall be nailed to it; and his house shall be made a heap of rubble for this.

• Daniel 5:4

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

• Daniel 5:23

  But against the Lord of the heavens you have lifted yourself up; and the vessels of his house they brought before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and the gods of silver and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood and of stone, which do not see or hear or know, you have praised; but the Elah in whose hand is your breath and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.