tsemach · growth, sprout

What it means

tsemach (צֶמַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “growth, sprout”.

What springs from the ground: plants, vegetation; a shoot.

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. What springs from the ground; also the promised Shoot of David.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sprout ×6
• sprouting ×2
• sprouts ×2
• like the growth ×1
• what grew ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• Hosea×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 19:25

  He overturned those cities, and the whole plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

• Psalms 65:10

  Its furrows you drench, you level its clods; with downpours you soften it; its sprouts you bless.

• Isaiah 4:2

  On that day the sprout of YHWH will be an ornament and glory, and the fruit of the land will be loftiness and beauty for the escaped of Israel.

• 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 23:5

  Look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will raise up for David a righteous sprout, and he will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.

• 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 17:9

  Say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Will it prosper? Will he not tear out its roots and strip off its fruit, so that it withers? All the leaves of its sprouting will wither; and not with a great arm nor with many people will it take to pull it up from its roots.

• Ezekiel 17:10

  And look, it is planted; will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind touches it? On the beds of its sprouting it will wither.’”

• Hosea 8:7

  For wind they sow, and a whirlwind they will reap; standing grain, it has no sprout; it will not yield flour; if perhaps it yields, strangers will swallow it.

• Zechariah 3:8

  Hear, please, Joshua the high priest, you and your companions who sit before you, for they are men of wonder; for look, I am bringing my servant, the sprout.

• 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.