Barzel בַּרְזֶל

Barzel (Hebrew בַּרְזֶל, Strong's H1270) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “iron”. It occurs 76 times in 70 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Barzel, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 4:22
  And Zillah, she also bare Tubal–cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal–cain was Naamah.And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Leviticus

• 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:I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

Numbers

• Numbers 31:22
  Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
• 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.If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy

• 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 children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
• 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 ye are this day.Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
• 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 hills thou mayest dig brass.a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
• 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 head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
• 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.Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.
• Deuteronomy 28:23
  And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
• 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 all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
• Deuteronomy 33:25
  Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”

Joshua

• 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.For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”
• 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 into the treasury of the house of the Lord.Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
• 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 stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.
• 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 of iron, both they who are of Beth–shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.“The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”
• 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 out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”
• 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 brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”

Judges

• 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, because they had chariots of iron.The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.
• 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 children of Israel.Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
• 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 the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.

1 Samuel

• 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 went before him.The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.

2 Samuel

• 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 them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
• 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 place.The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

1 Kings

• 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 axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
• 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:For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
• 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 thou have consumed them.Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

2 Kings

• 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.As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”
• 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.“Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.

1 Chronicles

• 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 all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
• 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;David provided a large quantity of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with more bronze than could be weighed
• 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 of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.
• 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.in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and may the LORD be with you.”
• 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, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.Now with all my ability I have made provision for the house of my God—gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and slabs of marble—all in abundance.
• 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 of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

2 Chronicles

• 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 that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
• 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 stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.
• 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 consumed.Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
• 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 repair the house of the Lord, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the Lord.Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

Job

• Job 19:24
  That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
• Job 20:24
  He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
• Job 28:2
  Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
• Job 40:18
  His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.
• Job 41:27
  He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Psalms

• Psalm 2:9
  Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
• Psalm 105:18
  Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
• Psalm 107:10
  Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
• Psalm 107:16
  For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
• Psalm 149:8
  To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,

Proverbs

• Proverbs 27:17
  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

Ecclesiastes

• 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.If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 10:34
  And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
• 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 is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
• 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:“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
• Isaiah 48:4
  Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
• 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, and thine exactors righteousness.Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

Jeremiah

• 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 Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
• Jeremiah 6:28
  They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
• 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, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
• Jeremiah 15:12
  Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?Can anyone smash iron— iron from the north—or bronze?
• 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 horns of your altars;“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
• 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.“Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’
• 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 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”

Ezekiel

• 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 shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
• 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 are even the dross of silver.“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
• 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 I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
• 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.Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.
• Ezekiel 27:19
  Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.

Amos

• 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 threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.

Micah

• 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 people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).