Oar
Oars appear in the Bible mostly in the poetry of the prophets, and always with ships of trade or war. Ezekiel describes the great port city of Tyre as a ship whose oars were made from “the oaks of Bashan,” with benches of ivory brought from distant islands, and later he pictures the rowers stepping onto the land as the city falls. Isaiah turns the image around: God’s city will be a place of broad rivers where “no galley with oars” will go, a picture of safety without warships. The word is small, but it carries a sense of the sea and of human effort. Ezekiel 27 is the place to see it.
3 verses
Isaiah
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Ezekiel
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;