גַּרְזֶן
garzen · axe
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1631 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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garzen (גַּרְזֶן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “axe”.
How to say it
gar·zen
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
- An iron tool with a handle for cutting trees and wood.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 19:5
as when someone goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off from the wood and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live,
- Deuteronomy 20:19
When you besiege a city many days, fighting against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them, for from them you may eat, and you shall not cut them down. Is the tree of the field a human being, to come before you in the siege?
- 1 Kings 6:7
And the house, when it was built, was built of whole stone from the quarry; and hammer or axe, any tool of iron, was not heard in the house while it was being built.
- Isaiah 10:15
Shall the axe boast over the one who chops with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against the one who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it, as if a staff should lift one who is not wood!