H6097 H6097
trees (collective); timber, wood
This feminine noun appears to be a collective for trees, though BDB notes textual uncertainty. In Jeremiah 6:6 it occurs in the command to cut down trees against Jerusalem. Most manuscripts and versions suggest reading this as a third feminine singular suffix on the regular noun for tree/wood, yielding 'her trees' or 'its timber.' The form as it stands would be collective 'trees,' but emendation to a suffix form is widely accepted.
Senses
1. sense 1 — In Jeremiah 6:6, this likely should be read as 'her trees' (with suffix) rather than as an independent collective noun, referring to Jerusalem's trees which are to be cut for siege works. The passage involves judgment imagery with trees being felled for military purposes. The textual note indicates manuscript variation, with Oriental manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum all supporting the suffixed reading 'her tree/timber.' 1×
AR["أَشْجَارًا"]·ben["গাছ"]·DE["Rat"]·EN["trees"]·FR["conseil"]·heb["עצה"]·HI["पेड़"]·ID["pohon-pohon"]·IT["consiglio"]·jav["wit-witan"]·KO["나무를"]·PT["árvores"]·RU["деревья"]·ES["árboles"]·SW["miti"]·TR["ağaç"]·urd["درخت"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. עֵצָה n.f.coll. trees Je 6:6, but read עֵצָהּ (עֵץ c. sf. 3 fs.), so Orient. Codd. 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 𝔗 Hi Gf—1. עֵצָה v. sub. יָעַץ.