berosh · cypress

What it means

berosh (בְּרוֹשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cypress”.

(or a similar tree with good wood); also what is made from that wood: spears or musical instruments.

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. A tree of fine evergreen wood.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cypress ×13
• cypresses ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×5
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×1

• 2 Samuel 6:5

  David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before YHWH with all kinds of instruments of cypress wood, with lyres, with harps, with tambourines, with sistrums, and with cymbals.

• 1 Kings 5:8

  And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard what you sent to me; I will do all your pleasure concerning timber of cedar and timber of cypress.

• 1 Kings 5:10

  So Hiram was giving Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress, all his pleasure.

• 1 Kings 6:15

  And he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling he overlaid them with wood on the inside; and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

• 1 Kings 6:34

  and two doors of cypress wood: the two leaves of the one door were pivoting, and the two leaves of the second door were pivoting.

• 1 Kings 9:11

  — Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with timber of cedar and timber of cypress and with gold, according to all his pleasure — that then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

• 2 Kings 19:23

  Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.

• 2 Chronicles 2:8

  And send me cedar timber, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut the timber of Lebanon. And look, my servants will be with your servants,

• 2 Chronicles 3:5

  The great house he covered with cypress wood, and covered it with good gold, and put on it palm trees and chains.

• Psalms 104:17

  where the birds make their nests; the stork, the cypresses are her house.

• Isaiah 14:8

  Even the cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: ‘Since you lay down, no woodcutter comes up against us.’

• Isaiah 37:24

  Through your servants you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter the height of its farthest end, the forest of its orchard.

• Isaiah 41:19

  I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the Arabah the cypress, the elm, and the box tree together,

• Isaiah 55:13

  Instead of the thornbush will come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle will come up the myrtle; and it will be for YHWH as a name, as an eternal sign that will not be cut off.”

• Isaiah 60:13

  The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the elm, and the boxwood together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and the place of my feet I will honor.

• Ezekiel 27:5

  Of cypresses from Senir they built for you all the planks; a cedar from Lebanon they took to make a mast for you.

• Ezekiel 31:8

  The cedars did not eclipse it in the garden of Elohim; the cypresses did not resemble its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its foliage; no tree in the garden of Elohim resembled it in its beauty.

• Hosea 14:8

  Ephraim: “What have I to do any longer with idols?” I answer and watch over him; I am like a cypress that is green; from me your fruit is found.

• Nahum 2:3

  The shield of his mighty men is reddened, the men of valor clothed in scarlet; in the fire of steel are the chariots on the day he prepares them, and the cypresses are shaken.

• Zechariah 11:2

  Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the nobles have been devastated. Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down.