H0839 H0839
cypresses/Ashurim (wood type in Ezekiel's ship description, textual uncertainty)
Ezekiel's elaborate description of Tyre's merchant fleet mentions this material in constructing ship decks or components. Critical scholarship proposes emending the text to read "with boxwood" (te'ashshurim), as the context demands a wood type suitable for shipbuilding. The original reading remains obscure, possibly referring to cypresses or representing a place name Ashurim.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Problematic term in Ezekiel 27:6 within the extended metaphor of Tyre as a magnificent ship. Scholars widely propose textual emendation to a wood type (boxwood), though the received text appears to name either a people (Ashurim/Assyrians) or possibly a tree species. Spanish translates as "Assyrians," while German and French leave it untransliterated, reflecting interpretive uncertainty. 1×
AR["الْأَشُورِيِّينَ"]·ben["অশ্শূরীয়দের"]·DE["[אשרים]"]·EN["cypresses"]·FR["sycomore"]·heb["אשורים"]·HI["अशूरों-की"]·ID["pohon-cemara,"]·IT["[אשרים]"]·jav["Asur"]·KO["앗수르의"]·PT["Ashurim"]·RU["Ассирийцев"]·ES["asirios"]·SW["Waashuri"]·TR["aşur-ağaçlarının"]·urd["اشوریوں-کے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֲשֻׁרִים in בַּת א׳ Ez 27:6 (read בִּתְאַשֻּׁרִים with box-wood Bo Hi MV Co al., cf. foll.)