The word in Scripture

Wood in the Bible

The word wood appears 140 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Wood is timber for building and for the altar of sacrifice. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What wood means in the Bible

Wood is timber for building and for the altar of sacrifice.

Where the word wood appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word wood appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”Genesis 6:14

“And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.”Genesis 22:9

“And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.”Deuteronomy 4:28

“The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.”Psalms 80:13

“Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice”Psalms 96:12

“Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.”Proverbs 26:20

“And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.”Isaiah 7:2

“Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.”Isaiah 45:20