H1631 - גַּרְזֶן (garzen)

H1631 גַּרְזֶן (garzen) gar-zen'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

axe

Strong's Definition

an axe

Derivation: from H1629 (גָּרַז);

KJV Usage: ax.

TWOT Reference: 379a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) axe

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G513 G4604

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

axe

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גַּרְזֶן garzen BDB Definition: 1) axe Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H1629 Same Word by TWOT Number: 379a Total KJV Occurrences: 4

Bible Occurrences (4)

19:5 20:19

6:7

10:15

Deuteronomy 19:5

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off...... the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

Deuteronomy 20:19

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit -. You must not cut them down.... Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

1 Kings 6:7

The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel [or] any [other] iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

Isaiah 10:15

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, [or] a staff lifting him who is not wood!