אֶ֫רֶז
e.rez (H0730)
cedar
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# Cedar (H0730): A Significant Building Material in Ancient Israel The Hebrew word *erez* denotes cedar, appearing 73 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency indicates cedar held considerable importance in ancient Israelite material culture and religious practice. The straightforward definition—cedar—refers to a specific type of wood, likely the cedar of Lebanon, which was renowned in the ancient Near East for its durability, fragrance, and aesthetic qualities. The substantial number of biblical occurrences suggests cedar functioned as more than a mere commodity. Its repeated mention across 73 instances indicates the wood played a meaningful role in significant contexts—whether in construction projects, religious structures, or symbolic representations in biblical narrative. The consistency of its appearance across the biblical corpus suggests it represented a valued resource that biblical authors considered worthy of documentation and reference. Without access to the specific contexts of these 73 occurrences, the lexicon data alone confirms that cedar was a recognized, named substance integral to biblical-era society. The word's existence as a distinct lemma with substantial textual presence reflects that ancient Hebrew speakers and writers recognized cedar as a distinct category of material worthy of specific terminology, marking it as an important element of their physical and cultural world.
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then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.
As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’
Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.
Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber.
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.
He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.
He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’
and cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me.
“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants,
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;
The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.
His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
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