tsamach · sprout

What it means

tsamach (צָמַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sprout”.

Spring up; begin to grow.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To come up from the ground and grow; what God causes to appear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sprout ×18
• grow ×4
• sprouted ×4
• grows ×1
• had grown ×1
• has grown ×1
• it springs up ×1
• sprouting ×1
• they spring up ×1
• they will spring up ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 2:5

  Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for YHWH Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no human being to work the ground;

• Genesis 2:9

  And YHWH Elohim made every tree sprout from the ground that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• Genesis 3:18

  And thorns and thistles it will make sprout for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

• Genesis 41:6

  And look, seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them.

• Genesis 41:23

  And look, seven ears, withered, thin, scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them.

• Exodus 10:5

  They will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat what is left of what escaped, what remains to you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you in the field.

• Leviticus 13:37

  But if in his eyes the ringworm has stayed as it was and black hair has grown in it, the ringworm has healed; he is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean.

• Deuteronomy 29:23

  —all its land brimstone and salt, a burning; it will not be sown, and it will not sprout, and no plant will come up in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger and in his wrath—

• Judges 16:22

  But the hair of his head began to grow after he had been shaved.

• 2 Samuel 10:5

  They reported it to David, and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

• 2 Samuel 23:5

  For is not my house so with El? For an eternal covenant he has set for me, ordered in all things and secured. For all my salvation and all my delight, will he not make them sprout?

• 1 Chronicles 19:5

  They went and told David about the men, and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

• Job 5:6

  For wickedness does not come out of the dust, nor does suffering sprout from the ground,

• Job 8:19

  Look, this is the joy of his way; and from the dust others will sprout.

• Job 38:27

  to satisfy the desolation and ruin, and to make sprout the shoots of grass?

• Psalms 85:11

  Faithfulness will sprout from the earth, and righteousness looks down from the heavens.

• Psalms 104:14

  He makes grass grow for the livestock, and plants for the labor of man, to bring forth bread from the earth,

• Psalms 132:17

  There I will make sprout a horn for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed one.

• Psalms 147:8

  who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes sprout grass on the mountains,

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made for myself pools of water to water from them a forest sprouting trees.

• Isaiah 42:9

  The former things, look, have come, and new things I declare; before they spring up I make you hear them.”

• Isaiah 43:19

  Look, I am doing a new thing; now it springs up; will you not know it? Indeed, I will make in the wilderness a way, in the wasteland rivers.

• Isaiah 44:4

  And they will spring up among the grass, like willows by streams of water.

• Isaiah 45:8

  Drip, heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bear the fruit of salvation, and let it make righteousness sprout together; I, YHWH, have created it.”

• Isaiah 55:10

  For as the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return there, but water the earth and make it give birth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

• Isaiah 58:8

  Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will sprout quickly; and your righteousness will go before you; the glory of YHWH will gather you.

• Isaiah 61:11

  For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden makes its seeds sprout, so Adonai YHWH will make sprout righteousness and praise before all the nations.

• Jeremiah 33:15

  In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a sprout of righteousness, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.

• Ezekiel 16:7

  A myriad, like the growth of the field, I made you, and you grew and became tall and came to the ornament of ornaments; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

• Ezekiel 17:6

  And it sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in stature, so that its branches turned toward it, and its roots were under it; and it became a vine, and produced shoots and sent out foliage.

• Ezekiel 29:21

  On that day I will make sprout a horn for the house of Israel, and to you I will give an opening of the mouth in their midst; and they will know that I am YHWH.”

• Zechariah 6:12

  And you shall say to him, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, saying: Look, a man whose name is sprout; and from his place he will sprout, and he will build the temple of YHWH.

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