STRONGS NUMBER H249


Word Summary
ezrach: a native
Original Word: אֶזְרָח
Transliteration: ezrach
Phonetic Spelling: (ez-rawkh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a native
Meaning: a spontaneous growth, native
Strong's Concordance
bay tree, homeborn in the land, of the one's own country nation

From zarach (in the sense of springing up); a spontaneous growth, i.e. Native (tree or persons) -- bay tree, (home-)born (in the land), of the (one's own) country (nation).

see HEBREW zarach

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H249. ezrach

אֶזְרָחnoun masculinePsalm 37:35 a native (one arising from the soil; = 'free tribesman' RSSemitic i. 75) — absolute ׳אLeviticus 19:34 13t.; construct אֶזְרַחExodus 12:19 2t.; —

1 a native Israelite, usually collective, with article, ׳הָא בישׂראל כלֿLeviticus 23:42 (H), compare Numbers 15:13 (P); elsewhere opposed to גֵּר‎ (q. v.): — ׳הָא ישׂר ׳בִּבְנֵי15:29 (P), compare Ezekiel 47:22; הָאָרֶץ אֶזְרַחExodus 12:19, 48; Numbers 9:14 (all P); ׳א מִכֶּםLeviticus 19:34 see also 17:15; 18:26; 24:16, 22 (all H); Exodus 12:49; Leviticus 16:29; Numbers 15:30 (all P), Joshua 8:33 (D).

2 a native tree, growing in its natural soil ׳א רַעֲנָןPsalm 37:35 (figurative of prosperous wicked).