Definition

a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)

Etymology

from H6095 (עָצָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• carpenter
• gallows
• helve
• pine
• plank
• staff
• stalk
• stick
• stock
• timber
• tree
• wood

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.