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title: אֹרֶן — fir · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֹרֶן (766), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: fir. BDB 1906: fir cedar. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֹרֶן

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«אֹרֶן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fir** — 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:** 766 · **BDB:** אֹ֫רֶן

### Glosses

laurel (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fir [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/766/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

fir cedar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/766/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fir or cedar (Assyrian erinu COTGloss, Mish. pl. ארנים) Is 44:14 (‖ אֶרֶז, תִּרְזָה, אַלּוֹן, עֲצֵי יַעַר).

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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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֹרֶן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/766/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 44:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.14/)

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לִכְרָת־ל֣וֹ אֲרָזִ֔ים וַיִּקַּ֤ח תִּרְזָה֙ וְאַלּ֔וֹן וַיְאַמֶּץ־ל֖וֹ בַּעֲצֵי־יָ֑עַר נָטַ֥ע אֹ֖רֶןוְגֶ֥שֶׁם יְגַדֵּֽל׃

*Word for word:* to cut.down (for himself cedars and he.took a.cypress and an.oak and he.strengthened.\[it\] for himself among.\[the\] trees of.\[the\].forest he.plants laurel and rain it.makes.\[it\].grow

*JPS 1917:* He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the ilex and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest; he planteth a bay-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

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