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title: נִצָּן — blossom · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נִצָּן (5322), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: blossom. BDB 1906: id. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נִצָּן

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«נִצָּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **blossom** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 5322 · **BDB:** נִצָּן²

### Glosses

blossom (1); blossoms (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

blossom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5322/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5322/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] id., only pl. נִצָּנִים Ct 2:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נִצָּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5322/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 40:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.10/)

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וּבַגֶּ֖פֶן שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה שָׂרִיגִ֑ם וְהִ֤יא כְפֹרַ֙חַת֙ עָלְתָ֣ה נִצָּ֔הּ הִבְשִׁ֥ילוּ אַשְׁכְּלֹתֶ֖יהָ עֲנָבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the vine three branches and it just as.\[it.was\].budding it.went.up blossom its they.ripened clusters its grapes

*JPS 1917:* and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes,

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[Song of Songs 2:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.12/)

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הַנִּצָּנִים֙ נִרְא֣וּ בָאָ֔רֶץ עֵ֥ת הַזָּמִ֖יר הִגִּ֑יעַ וְק֥וֹל הַתּ֖וֹר נִשְׁמַ֥ע בְּאַרְצֵֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* the blossoms they.have.appeared in the land the.time of.(the) pruning it.has.arrived and the.sound of the.turtle-dove it.has.been.heard in land our

*JPS 1917:* The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

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