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title: צוּץ — blossom · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צוּץ (6692), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: blossom. BDB 1906: vb. blossom shine, sparkle. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צוּץ

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«צוּץ» 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 6692 · **BDB:** צוּץ

### Glosses

he.flourishes (1); it.flourishes (1); it.had.blossomed (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

blossom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6692/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. blossom shine, sparkle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6692/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. blossom. shine, sparkle (perhaps orig. meaning of √, but connex. of 1, 2. dub.) (NH id. Hiph., fig. senses, צִיץ n. = BH);— Pf. 3 ms. צָץ הַמַּטֶּה Ez 7:10 (fig.; ‖ פָּרַח הַזָּדוֹן); Impf. 3 ms. יָצִיץ ψ 90:6 (of grass, חָצִיר), 103:15 (man under fig. of flower), fig. יָצִיץ וּפָרַח יִשׂ׳ Is 27:6; 3 mpl. יָצִיצוּ ψ 72:16, וַיָּצִיצוּ 92:8 (‖ פָּרַח; both fig. of men =) flourish. shine, gleam: of crown (נֵזֶר) ψ 132:18. Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּצֵץ צִיץ Nu 17:23 it put forth blossoms (of rod;—ֵ perhaps from ‖ וַיֹּצֵא פֶרַח).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 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 «צוּץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6692/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 132:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.132.18/)

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א֭וֹיְבָיו אַלְבִּ֣ישׁ בֹּ֑שֶׁת וְ֝עָלָ֗יו יָצִ֥יץ נִזְרֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* enemies his I.will.clothe shame and on him it.will.shine crown his

*JPS 1917:* His enemies will I clothe with shame; but upon himself shall his crown shine.'

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[Psalms 90:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.6/)

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בַּ֭בֹּקֶר יָצִ֣יץ וְחָלָ֑ף לָ֝עֶ֗רֶב יְמוֹלֵ֥ל וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* in the morning it.flourishes and it.sprouts.up to the evening it.withers and it.dries.up

*JPS 1917:* In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

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