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title: צֶמַח — sprout · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צֶמַח (6780), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: sprout. BDB 1906: n.m. sprout, growth. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צֶמַח

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«צֶמַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sprout** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 6780 · **BDB:** צֶ֫מַח

### Glosses

growth (3); a.branch (2); its.growth (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sprout [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6780/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. sprout, growth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6780/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 23:5 sprout, growth;—abs. צ׳ Ho 8:7 +, צֶ֑מַח Zc 3:8; cstr. צֶ֫מַח Gn 19:25 +; sf. צִמְחָהּ Ez 17:9 +;— coll. sprouting, growth, צ׳ הָאֲדָמָה Gn 19:25 (J), צ׳ הַשָּׂדֶה Ez 16:7 (sim.), cf. Is 61:11 ψ 65:11; so צ׳ יהוה Is 4:2, צ׳ abs. Ho 8:7; growth (= foliage) of vine, טַרְפֵּי צ׳ Ez 17:9. process of growth, of vine, עֲרֻגֹת צִמְחָהּ Ez 17:10 = the beds where it grew. future ruler, under fig. of sprout from Davidic tree (cf. ψ 132:17) וַהֲקִמֹתִי לְדָוִד צ׳ צַדִּיק Je 23:5 a righteous sprout, shoot, = אַצְמִיחַ לְדָוִד צ׳ צְדָקָה 33:15; hence (as n.pr.) עַבְדִּי צ׳ Ze 3:8, of Joshua אִישׁ צ׳ שְׁמוֹ 6:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 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 (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צֶמַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6780/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 65:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.11/)

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תְּלָמֶ֣יהָ רַ֭וֵּה נַחֵ֣ת גְּדוּדֶ֑יהָ בִּרְבִיבִ֥ים תְּ֝מֹגְגֶ֗נָּה צִמְחָ֥הּ תְּבָרֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* furrows its you.water.abundantly you.press.down ridges its with showers you soften.it growth its you.bless

*JPS 1917:* Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof.

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[Hosea 8:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.7/)

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כִּ֛י ר֥וּחַ יִזְרָ֖עוּ וְסוּפָ֣תָה יִקְצֹ֑רוּ קָמָ֣ה אֵֽין־ל֗וֹ צֶ֚מַח בְּלִ֣י יַֽעֲשֶׂה־קֶּ֔מַח אוּלַ֣י יַֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה זָרִ֖ים יִבְלָעֻֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.wind they.sow and a storm-wind they.will.reap standing.grain there.\[is\].not for it growth not it.will.produce flour perhaps it.will.produce strangers they will.swallow.it

*JPS 1917:* For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; it hath no stalk, the bud that shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

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