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# גֶּזַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1503

**stock** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

stock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1503/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫זַע: n.m. stock, stem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1503/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 14:8 stock, stem (NH id., cf. Syriac ܓܽܘܙܥܳܐ stem, trunk)—cstr. גֶּזַע Is 11:1; sf. גִּזְעוֹ Jb 14:8, גִּזְעָם Is 40:24;—stock, stem of a tree Jb 14:8 (‖ שֹׁרֶשׁ); fig. ג׳ ישׁי ‘stem of Jesse’ Is 11:1 (‖ שֹׁרֶשׁ); שֹׁרֵשׁ בָּאָרֶץ ג׳ Is 40:24 (‖ נטע, זרע).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rootstock (1); stump (1); the rootstock (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 11:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.1/#tree)

וְיָצָ֥א חֹ֖טֶר מִגֵּ֣זַע יִשָׁ֑י וְנֵ֖צֶר מִשָּׁרָשָׁ֥יו יִפְרֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.go.forth a.branch from the.rootstock of.Jesse and a.shoot from roots his it.will.bear.fruit

*JPS 1917:* And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots.

[Job 14:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.8/#tree)

אִם־יַזְקִ֣ין בָּאָ֣רֶץ שָׁרְשׁ֑וֹ וּ֝בֶעָפָ֗ר יָמ֥וּת גִּזְעֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* though it.will.grow.old in the ground root its and in the dust it.will.die stump its

*JPS 1917:* Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1503.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1503/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).