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# נָצַץ

Biblical Hebrew

**bloom** — 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

bloom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e6_5b7_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָצַץ²: vb. denom. bloom, blossom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e6_5b7_5e5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. bloom, blossom (NH id.; Jewish-Aramaic נְצַץ id.);— Pf. 3 pl. הֵנֵ֫צוּ Ct 6:11 (no dagh., v. Köi. 381 Ges§ 67, 8, R. 11) the pomegranates have put forth blossoms, so 7:13; Impf. 3 ms. יָנֵאץ Ec 12:5 the almond-tree wears blossoms.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: had they bloomed? (1); they have bloomed (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.11/#tree)

אֶל־גִּנַּ֤ת אֱגוֹז֙ יָרַ֔דְתִּי לִרְא֖וֹת בְּאִבֵּ֣י הַנָּ֑חַל לִרְאוֹת֙ הֲפָֽרְחָ֣ה הַגֶּ֔פֶן הֵנֵ֖צוּ הָרִמֹּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* to a.garden of.nut\[s\] I.went.down to look on the.green.shoots of the.wadi to see had it.budded? the vine had.they.bloomed? the pomegranates

*JPS 1917:* I went down into the garden of nuts, to look at the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

[Song of Songs 7:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.13/#tree)

נַשְׁכִּ֙ימָה֙ לַכְּרָמִ֔ים נִרְאֶ֞ה אִם פָּֽרְחָ֤ה הַגֶּ֙פֶן֙ פִּתַּ֣ח הַסְּמָדַ֔ר הֵנֵ֖צוּ הָרִמּוֹנִ֑ים שָׁ֛ם אֶתֵּ֥ן אֶת־דֹּדַ֖י לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* let.us.rise.early to the vineyards let.us.see if it.has.budded the vine it.has.opened the blossom they.have.bloomed the pomegranates there I.will.give (et) love(s) my to you

*JPS 1917:* Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine hath budded, whether the vine-blossom be opened, and the pomegranates be in flower; there will I give thee my love.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e6_5b7_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e6_5b7_5e5/): 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).