נִצָּה
nitstsâh · H5328 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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blossom
Flowers on a tree or bush
ExamplesJob 15:33 “He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine, And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.
Isaiah 18:5 For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, And remove and tear away the spreading branches.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁלַךְto cast, to throw 1
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 2 words
- פֶּרַח perach · H6525 · bud, blossom, flower
- Both denote the flower or blossom of a plant; פֶּרַח emphasizes the budding or blossoming stage and is used in similar botanical contexts (e.g., Aaron's rod, temple ornamentation).
- צִיץ tsîyts · H6731 · blossom, flower, (golden) plate
- Another word for flower or blossom in Hebrew; used both literally for plant blossoms and metaphorically, sometimes with emphasis on the bright or shining appearance of flowers.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἄνθος ánthos · G438 · flower
- The standard Greek translation-equivalent for Hebrew נִצָּה in the LXX and general semantic correspondence; both denote a blossom or flower as the reproductive part of a plant.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Plants001002007001
- The word names a blossom or flower, as buds appear on the vine and blossoms send forth their fragrance (Song of Solomon 2:13), tying the word to this stage of plant growth.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5328. nitstsah נִצָּה noun feminine blossom (perhaps from above √, blossom, flower, as…
נִצָּה noun feminine blossom (perhaps from above √, blossom, flower, as shining amid leaves); — absolute ׳נ of vine Isa 18:5 (|| מֶּרַח; = berry-cluster according to Di Kit CheHpt compare J. DerenbZAW v (1885), 301 f.; vi (1886), 98 f.); suffix נִצָּתוֺ Job 15:33 (of olive); read also נִצָּתָהּ Gen 40:10 (of vine) for נִצָּהּ ᵑ0, compare Di Holz.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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