Word

גֶּזַע

gezaʻ · H1503 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

stump, stem

The main body of a tree, which is either the part that remains in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off, or a branch that is planted with the intention that it develops new roots; symbol of something apparently dead that has the potential for renewed life

Examples
Job 14:8 “Though its roots grow old in the ground, And its stump dies in the dry soil,
Isaiah 11:1 Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
Isaiah 40:24 Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

יִשַׁיJesse 1
הוּhis 1
הֶםtheir 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מוּתto die 1
שָׁרַשׁto take root 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

שֶׁרֶשׁ sheresh · H8328 · root, root > cause: שֹׁרֶשׁ (root) and גֶּזַע (stem/stock/stump) are distinct but closely related botanical terms that can be used interchangeably in poetic parallelism to refer to the base/foundation of a tree. In Isaiah 11:10, שֹׁרֶשׁ appears in parallel construction with the earlier use of גֶּזַע in 11:1, both referring to the Davidic/Jessean origin. These are not cognates but independent lexemes for related tree parts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Trees001002007002: גֶּזַע denotes the stem or stock of a tree, as in Job 14:8's dying stump and Isaiah 11:1's shoot springing from the stem of Jesse.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1503. geza [גֶּ֫זַע] noun masculineJob 14:8 stock, stem (Late Hebrew id., compare Syriac…

H1503. geza
[גֶּ֫זַע] noun masculineJob 14:8 stock, stem (Late Hebrew id., compare Syriac stem, trunk) — construct גֶּזַע Isa 11:1; suffix גִּזְעוֺ Job 14:8, גִּזְעָם Isa 40:24; — stock, stem of a tree Job 14:8 (|| שֹׁרֶשׁ); figurative ׳ג ישׁי 'stem of Jesse Isa 11:1 (|| שֹׁרֶשׁ); ג בָּאָרֶץ ׳שֹׁרֵשׁ Isa 40:24 (|| זרע נטע,).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Trees3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0