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# דָּשָׁא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1876

**sprout** — used 2 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

sprout [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1876/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּשָׁא: vb. sprout, shoot, grow green [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1876/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sprout, shoot, grow green (Assyrian dišû Pi make abundant Lyon Sargontexte 77; cf. also sub דֶּשֶׁא, whence, according to others, vb. denom.)— Pf. דָּֽשְׁאוּ Jo 2:22 (subj. נְאוֹת מִדְבָּר). Impf. 3 fs. תַּדְשֵׁא (juss.) Gn 1:11 cause to sprout or shoot forth תַּדְשֵׁא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא.—דָּשָׁא Je 50:11 v. sub דּוּשׁ.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: let it sprout (1); they are green (1).

## In the verses

[Joel 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.22/#tree)

אַל־תִּֽירְאוּ֙ בַּהֲמ֣וֹת שָׂדַ֔י כִּ֥י דָשְׁא֖וּ נְא֣וֹת מִדְבָּ֑ר כִּֽי־עֵץ֙ נָשָׂ֣א פִרְי֔וֹ תְּאֵנָ֥ה וָגֶ֖פֶן נָתְנ֥וּ חֵילָֽם׃

*Word for word:* do.not fear O.animals of.\[the\].field (dm) they.are.green \[the\].pastures of.\[the\].wilderness (dm) \[the\].tree\[s\] it.has.borne fruit its \[the\].fig.tree and.\[the\] vine they.have.given strength their

*JPS 1917:* Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.

[Genesis 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.1.11/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים תַּֽדְשֵׁ֤א הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ דֶּ֔שֶׁא עֵ֚שֶׂב מַזְרִ֣יעַ זֶ֔רַע עֵ֣ץ פְּרִ֞י עֹ֤שֶׂה פְּרִי֙ לְמִינ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר זַרְעוֹ־ב֖וֹ עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said God let.it.sprout the earth vegetation plant\[s\] \[which\].bears.seed seed tree\[s\] of.fruit producing fruit to kind its which seed its \[is\].in it on the earth and it.was so

*JPS 1917:* And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1876.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1876/): 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).