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title: נִצָּה — blossom · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נִצָּה (5328), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: blossom. BDB 1906: n.f. blossom. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נִצָּה

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«נִצָּה» 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:** 5328 · **BDB:** נִצָּה²

### Glosses

blossom (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

blossom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5328/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. blossom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5328/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. blossom (perhaps from above √, blossom, flower, as shining amid leaves);—abs. נ׳ of vine Is 18:5 (‖ פֶּרַח; = berry-cluster according to Di Kit CheHpt. cf. J. Derenb ZAW v (1885), 301 f.; vi (1886). 98 f.); sf. נִצָּתוֹ Jb 15:33 (of olive); read also נִצָּתָהּ Gn 40:10 (of vine) for MT נִצָּהּ, cf. Di Holz.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נִצָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5328/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 15:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.33/)

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יַחְמֹ֣ס כַּגֶּ֣פֶן בִּסְר֑וֹ וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ כַּ֝זַּ֗יִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.treat.violently like (the) vine grape\[s\] his.unripe and he.will.shed like.(the) olive tree blossom his

*JPS 1917:* He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

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[Isaiah 18:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/)

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כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּתָם־פֶּ֔רַח וּבֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑ה וְכָרַ֤ת הַזַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז׃

*Word for word:* (dm) before harvest just as.is.finished bud\[s\] and unripe.grape\[s\] ripening it.will.become blossom and he.will.cut.off the shoots with.(the) pruning knives and (et) the tendrils he.will.remove he.will.cut.away

*JPS 1917:* For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.

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