# H249 אֶזְרָח

אֶזְרָח (ʼezrâch), Strong’s H249: a spontaneous growth, i.e. native (tree or persons) KJV: bay tree, (home-) born (in the land), of the (one's own) country (nation).. Occurs 17 times.

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*ʼezrâch* — a spontaneous growth, i.e. native (tree or persons)

KJV: bay tree, (home-) born (in the land), of the (one's own) country (nation).

Derived from [זָרַח zârach](https://besorah.bible/word/H2224) (to irradiate)

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֶזְרָח n.m. a native (one arising from the soil = ‘free tribesman’)

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 12:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=19) — There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall…
- [Exodus 12:48](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=48) — When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be…
- [Exodus 12:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=49) — One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
- [Leviticus 16:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/16?v=29) — “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your…
- [Leviticus 17:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/17?v=15) — “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a…
- [Leviticus 18:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/18?v=26) — You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the…
- [Leviticus 19:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=34) — The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as…
- [Leviticus 23:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/23?v=42) — You shall dwell in temporary shelters for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary…
- [Leviticus 24:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/24?v=16) — He who blasphemes the LORD’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The…
- [Leviticus 24:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/24?v=22) — You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the LORD your God.’”