# בַּרְזֶל (barzel)

Israeli respelling: bar-zel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1270. 70 Old Testament occurrences.

iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement

King James renderings: (ax) head, iron.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/barzel-h1270

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 4:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/4/22) — And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
- [Leviticus 26:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/19) — And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
- [Numbers 31:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/22) — Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
- [Numbers 35:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/16) — And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- [Deuteronomy 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/11) — For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the chil…
- [Deuteronomy 4:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/20) — But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as y…
- [Deuteronomy 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/9) — A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose…
- [Deuteronomy 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 to cut down the tree, and the…
- [Deuteronomy 27:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/27/5) — And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
- [Deuteronomy 28:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/23) — And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
- [Deuteronomy 28:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/48) — Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of…
- [Deuteronomy 33:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/25) — Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
- [Joshua 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/19) — But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
- [Joshua 6:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/24) — And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put…
- [Joshua 8:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/31) — As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole ston…
- [Joshua 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/16) — And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots o…
- [Joshua 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/18) — But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive…
- [Joshua 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/8) — And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with br…
- [Judges 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/19) — And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, becau…
- [Judges 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/3) — And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the childr…
- [Judges 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/13) — And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of…
- [1 Samuel 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/7) — And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield wen…
- [2 Samuel 12:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/31) — And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made the…
- [2 Samuel 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/7) — But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same…
- [1 Kings 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 a…
- [1 Kings 8:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/51) — For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
- [1 Kings 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/11) — And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until t…
- [2 Kings 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/5) — But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
- [2 Kings 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/6) — And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
- [1 Chronicles 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/20/3) — And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with al…
- [1 Chronicles 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/3) — And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
- [1 Chronicles 22:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/14) — Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents o…
- [1 Chronicles 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/16) — Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
- [1 Chronicles 29:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/2) — Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver,…
- [1 Chronicles 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/7) — And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and…
- [2 Chronicles 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/7) — Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and th…
- [2 Chronicles 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/14) — The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in…
- [2 Chronicles 18:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/10) — And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be…
- [2 Chronicles 24:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/12) — And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repai…
- [Job 19:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/24) — That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
- [Job 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/24) — He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- [Job 28:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/2) — Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
- [Job 40:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/40/18) — His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
- [Job 41:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/27) — He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
- [Psalms 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/2/9) — Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
- [Psalms 105:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/18) — Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
- [Psalms 107:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/10) — Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
- [Psalms 107:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/16) — For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
- [Psalms 149:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/149/8) — To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
- [Proverbs 27:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/17) — Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
- [Ecclesiastes 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/10) — If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
- [Isaiah 10:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/34) — And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
- [Isaiah 44:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/12) — The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he i…
- [Isaiah 45:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/2) — I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
- [Isaiah 48:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/4) — Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- [Isaiah 60:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/17) — For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace…
- [Jeremiah 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/18) — For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of J…
- [Jeremiah 6:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/28) — They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
- [Jeremiah 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/4) — Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice,…
- [Jeremiah 15:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/12) — Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
- [Jeremiah 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/1) — The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the h…
- [Jeremiah 28:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/28/13) — Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
- [Jeremiah 28:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/28/14) — For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebu…
- [Ezekiel 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/3) — Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shal…
- [Ezekiel 22:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/18) — Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they a…
- [Ezekiel 22:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/20) — As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will…
- [Ezekiel 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/12) — Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
- [Ezekiel 27:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/19) — Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
- [Amos 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/1/3) — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have thr…
- [Micah 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/4/13) — Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many…