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title: צִיץ — blossom · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צִיץ (6731), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: blossom. BDB 1906: n.m. blossom, flower shining thing. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צִיץ

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«צִיץ» 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:** 14 times · **Key:** 6731 · **BDB:** צִיץ

### Glosses

blossom (5); of.blossoms (4); the.blossom (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

blossom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6731/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. blossom, flower shining thing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6731/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 28:1 1. blossom, flower. 2. shining thing;—צ׳ abs. Is 40:7 +, cstr. v 6 +; pl. צִצִּים 1 K 6:18 + 3 times 6 (on form v Köii. 1, 60);— blossom, flower, Nu 17:23 (P; of Aaron’s rod); (fig. of man Is 40:7, 8 (both נָבֵל צ׳; ‖ חָצִיר), cf. sim. צִיץ הַשָּׂדֶה v 6 (‖ id.), ψ 103:15, and צ׳ alone Jb 14:2; צ׳ נֹבֵל Is 28:1 (fig. of Samaria), so prob. also v 4 (for MT צִיצַת נ׳; so Marti); פְּטוּרֵי צִצִּים, as ornaments of temple 1 K 6:18, 29, 32, 35. shining thing, plate of gold, constituting the diadem on front of high priest’s mitre, Lv 8:9; Ex 28:36; 39:30 (all P).—ii, iii. צִיץ, v. p. 851 infr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 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 «צִיץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6731/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 40:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.8/)

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יָבֵ֥שׁ חָצִ֖יר נָ֣בֵֽל צִ֑יץ וּדְבַר־אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יָק֥וּם לְעוֹלָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* it.dries.up grass it.withers blossom and the.word our.God our it.will.stand forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.'

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[Psalms 103:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.15/)

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אֱ֭נוֹשׁ כֶּחָצִ֣יר יָמָ֑יו כְּצִ֥יץ הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה כֵּ֣ן יָצִֽיץ׃

*Word for word:* humankind \[are\].like (the) grass days his like the.blossom of the.field so he.flourishes

*JPS 1917:* As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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