Occurrences
Garzen occurs 4 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (2), 1 Kings (1), Isaiah (1)
- Deuteronomy 19:5 — As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe (בַגַּרְזֶן֙) to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
- Deuteronomy 20:19 — When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe (גַּרְזֶ֔ן) against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
- 1 Kings 6:7 — And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe (וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙) nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
- Isaiah 10:15 — Shall the axe (הַגַּרְזֶ֔ן) boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.