Only the trees
`ets (ates)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks) -- + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
which thou knowest
yada` (yaw-dah')
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially
that they be not trees
`ets (ates)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks) -- + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
for meat
ma'akal (mah-ak-awl')
an eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit) -- food, fruit, (bake-) meat(-s), victual.
thou shalt destroy
shachath (shaw-khath')
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin -- batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, utterly, waste(-r).
and cut them down
karath (kaw-rath')
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant
and thou shalt build
banah (baw-naw')
to build (literally and figuratively) -- (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), surely.
bulwarks
matsowr (maw-tsore')
something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
against the city
`iyr (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
that maketh
`asah (aw-saw')
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
war
milchamah (mil-khaw-maw')
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare) -- battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior).
with thee until it be subdued
yarad (yaw-rad')
to descend; causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
