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title: גֶּזַע — stock · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֶּזַע (1503), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: stock. BDB 1906: n.m. stock, stem. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֶּזַע

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«גֶּזַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stock** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1503 · **BDB:** גֶּ֫זַע

### Glosses

rootstock (1); stump (1); the.rootstock (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stock [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1503/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. stock, stem [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1503/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 14:8 stock, stem (NH id., cf. Syriac ܓܽܘܙܥܳܐ stem, trunk)—cstr. גֶּזַע Is 11:1; sf. גִּזְעוֹ Jb 14:8, גִּזְעָם Is 40:24;—stock, stem of a tree Jb 14:8 (‖ שֹׁרֶשׁ); fig. ג׳ ישׁי ‘stem of Jesse’ Is 11:1 (‖ שֹׁרֶשׁ); שֹׁרֵשׁ בָּאָרֶץ ג׳ Is 40:24 (‖ נטע, זרע).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֶּזַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1503/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 11:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.1/)

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וְיָצָ֥א חֹ֖טֶר מִגֵּ֣זַע יִשָׁ֑י וְנֵ֖צֶר מִשָּׁרָשָׁ֥יו יִפְרֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.go.forth a.branch from the.rootstock of.Jesse and a.shoot from roots his it.will.bear.fruit

*JPS 1917:* And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots.

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[Job 14:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.8/)

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אִם־יַזְקִ֣ין בָּאָ֣רֶץ שָׁרְשׁ֑וֹ וּ֝בֶעָפָ֗ר יָמ֥וּת גִּזְעֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* though it.will.grow.old in the ground root its and in the dust it.will.die stump its

*JPS 1917:* Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

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