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# נִצָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5328

**blossom** — 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

blossom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5328/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִצָּה²: n.f. blossom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5328/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. blossom (perhaps from above √, blossom, flower, as shining amid leaves);—abs. נ׳ of vine Is 18:5 (‖ פֶּרַח; = berry-cluster according to Di Kit CheHpt. cf. J. Derenb ZAW v (1885), 301 f.; vi (1886). 98 f.); sf. נִצָּתוֹ Jb 15:33 (of olive); read also נִצָּתָהּ Gn 40:10 (of vine) for MT נִצָּהּ, cf. Di Holz.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: blossom (2).

## In the verses

[Job 15:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.33/#tree)

יַחְמֹ֣ס כַּגֶּ֣פֶן בִּסְר֑וֹ וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ כַּ֝זַּ֗יִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.treat.violently like (the) vine grape\[s\] his.unripe and he.will.shed like.(the) olive tree blossom his

*JPS 1917:* He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

[Isaiah 18:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/#tree)

כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּתָם־פֶּ֔רַח וּבֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑ה וְכָרַ֤ת הַזַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז׃

*Word for word:* (dm) before harvest just as.is.finished bud\[s\] and unripe.grape\[s\] ripening it.will.become blossom and he.will.cut.off the shoots with.(the) pruning knives and (et) the tendrils he.will.remove he.will.cut.away

*JPS 1917:* For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5328.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5328/): 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).