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# צִיץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6731

**blossom** — used 14 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/1510/6731/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִיץ: n.m. blossom, flower shining thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6731/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 28:1 1. blossom, flower. 2. shining thing;—צ׳ abs. Is 40:7 +, cstr. v 6 +; pl. צִצִּים 1 K 6:18 + 3 times 6 (on form v Köii. 1, 60);— blossom, flower, Nu 17:23 (P; of Aaron’s rod); (fig. of man Is 40:7, 8 (both נָבֵל צ׳; ‖ חָצִיר), cf. sim. צִיץ הַשָּׂדֶה v 6 (‖ id.), ψ 103:15, and צ׳ alone Jb 14:2; צ׳ נֹבֵל Is 28:1 (fig. of Samaria), so prob. also v 4 (for MT צִיצַת נ׳; so Marti); פְּטוּרֵי צִצִּים, as ornaments of temple 1 K 6:18, 29, 32, 35. shining thing, plate of gold, constituting the diadem on front of high priest’s mitre, Lv 8:9; Ex 28:36; 39:30 (all P).—ii, iii. צִיץ, v. p. 851 infr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 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 (5); of blossoms (4); the blossom (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.8/#tree)

יָבֵ֥שׁ חָצִ֖יר נָ֣בֵֽל צִ֑יץ וּדְבַר־אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יָק֥וּם לְעוֹלָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* it.dries.up grass it.withers blossom and the.word our.God our it.will.stand forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.'

[Psalms 103:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.15/#tree)

אֱ֭נוֹשׁ כֶּחָצִ֣יר יָמָ֑יו כְּצִ֥יץ הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה כֵּ֣ן יָצִֽיץ׃

*Word for word:* humankind \[are\].like (the) grass days his like the.blossom of the.field so he.flourishes

*JPS 1917:* As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6731.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6731/): 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).