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# נִצָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5322

**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/1504/5322/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִצָּן²: id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5322/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] id., only pl. נִצָּנִים Ct 2:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 40:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.10/#tree)

וּבַגֶּ֖פֶן שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה שָׂרִיגִ֑ם וְהִ֤יא כְפֹרַ֙חַת֙ עָלְתָ֣ה נִצָּ֔הּ הִבְשִׁ֥ילוּ אַשְׁכְּלֹתֶ֖יהָ עֲנָבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the vine three branches and it just as.\[it.was\].budding it.went.up blossom its they.ripened clusters its grapes

*JPS 1917:* and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes,

[Song of Songs 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.12/#tree)

הַנִּצָּנִים֙ נִרְא֣וּ בָאָ֔רֶץ עֵ֥ת הַזָּמִ֖יר הִגִּ֑יעַ וְק֥וֹל הַתּ֖וֹר נִשְׁמַ֥ע בְּאַרְצֵֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* the blossoms they.have.appeared in the land the.time of.(the) pruning it.has.arrived and the.sound of the.turtle-dove it.has.been.heard in land our

*JPS 1917:* The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5322.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5322/): 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).