zemora · branch, vine shoot

What it means

zemora (זְמוֹרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “branch, vine shoot”.

Branch: a shoot of the vine.

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. A long shoot of the vine.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• branch ×3
• cutting ×1
• vine branches ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Nahum×1

• Numbers 13:23

  And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a carrying pole between two men, and also some of the pomegranates and of the figs.

• Isaiah 17:10

  For you have forgotten the Elohim of your salvation, and the Rock of your stronghold you have not remembered; therefore you plant pleasant plantings and with a cutting of a stranger you sow it;

• Ezekiel 8:17

  And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man? Is it a light thing for the house of Judah to do the abominations that they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence and again provoke me to anger? And look at them, putting the branch to their nose.

• Ezekiel 15:2

  “Son of man, what is the wood of the vine more than any wood, the branch that was among the trees of the forest?

• Nahum 2:2

  For YHWH restores the pride of Jacob as the pride of Israel, for those who empty have emptied them and their vine branches they have destroyed.