BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G8784
peukē — pine tree
1. the pine , (Iliad by Homer), etc. 2. any thing made from its wood, a torch of pine-wood , [variant datesTragica Adespota 3. a writing-tablet , (Euripides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8797
pitus — pine tree
the pine, stone pine , (Homer):—;proverbial, πίτυος τρόπον ἐκτρίβεσθαι to be destroyed like a pine , i. e. utterly , because the pine when cut down never grows again, (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Heb. tidhar, mentioned along with the fir-tree in Isa. 41:19; 60:13. This is probably the cypress; or it may be the stone-pine, which is common on the northern slopes of Lebanon. Some suppose that the elm, others that the oak, or holm, or ilex, is meant by the Hebrew word. In Neh. 8:15 the Revised Version has “wild olive” instead of “pine.” (See FIR.)
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
