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title: בְּרוֹת — cypress · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּרוֹת (1266), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cypress. BDB 1906: n.m. id. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּרוֹת

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«בְּרוֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cypress** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1266 · **BDB:** בְּרוֹת

### Glosses

\[are\].cypress(es) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cypress [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1266/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1266/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id. (Aramaic (prob. North-Palest.) form of same) only pl. בְּרוֹתִים ‖ אֲרָזִים Ct 1:17; ref. to arbour of trees as their home, cf. אֶרֶז.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּרוֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1266/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 1:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.17/)

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קֹר֤וֹת בָּתֵּ֙ינוּ֙ אֲרָזִ֔ים רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ בְּרוֹתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.beams our.houses our \[are\].cedar(s) rafters our \[are\].cypress(es)

*JPS 1917:* The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.

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