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# נֵצֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5342

**sprout** — used 4 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/1504/5342/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵ֫צֶר: n.m. sprout, shoot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5342/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sprout, shoot, in fig. uses:—נ׳ abs. Is 11:1; 14:19; (sim.); cstr. 60:21 (נ׳ מַטָּעַי), Dn 11:7 (מִנּ׳ שָׁרָשֶׁיהָ; but 𝔊 Bev ‘poss.’ נ׳ מִשָּׁרָשֶׁיהָ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: a shoot (2); \[they are\] the shoot (1); of (the) shoot\[s\] (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.

[Isaiah 60:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.21/#tree)

וְעַמֵּךְ֙ כֻּלָּ֣ם צַדִּיקִ֔ים לְעוֹלָ֖ם יִ֣ירְשׁוּ אָ֑רֶץ נֵ֧צֶר מַטָּעַ֛י מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָדַ֖י לְהִתְפָּאֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and people your of.them all \[will.be\].righteous forever of.perpetuity they.will.possess \[the\].land \[they.are\].the.shoot my.planting(s) my the.work my.hands my to glorify.myself

*JPS 1917:* Thy people also shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land for ever; the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, wherein I glory.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5342.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5342/): 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).