Hebrew verb · H6779
צָמַח
tsamachtsaw-makh'
to spring
33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsâmach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6779is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 39Old Testament books
- 31spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6779
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
The King James renders it: bear, bring forth, (cause to, make to) bud (forth), (cause to, make to) grow (again, up), (cause to) spring (forth, up).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tsamach is rendered "to spring". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:5Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-one different ways.
The first use
Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 2:5יִצְמָ֑ח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in fourteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I will make grow2
- it springs up2
- it will grow back2
- springing up2
- they will spring up2
- and he made sprout1
- and it has made sprout it1
- and it sprouted1
- and they will spring up1
- and to cause to sprout1
- causing to grow1
- he will make grow1
and 16 more, 33 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 33, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
31 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יְצַמַּ֥ח2
- צֹמְח֖וֹת2
- אַצְמִ֣יחַ1
- אַצְמִ֥יחַ1
- אַצְמִ֤יחַ1
- הַמַּצְמִ֖יחַ1
- הַצֹּמֵ֥חַ1
- וְהִצְמִיחָ֑הּ1
- וַיִּצְמַ֡ח1
- וַיַּצְמַ֞ח1
- וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ1
- וְצָמְח֖וּ1
and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular4HVhi3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVhi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine plural2HVqrfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vhcc
- Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp3fs1Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp3fs
- Hc/Vhw3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms
- Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
Genesis
five uses
Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
- יִצְמָ֑חyitzmachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was sprouting
Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- וַיַּצְמַ֞חvaiyatzmachHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made sprout
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- תַּצְמִ֣יחַֽtatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will cause to sprout
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.
- צֹמְח֖וֹתtzomechotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: springing up
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.
- צֹמְח֖וֹתtzomechotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: springing up
Exodus
one use
They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.
- הַצֹּמֵ֥חַhatzomeachthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: that is sprouting
Leviticus
one use
If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.
- צָֽמַח־tzamach-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has sprouted
Deuteronomy
one use
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- תַצְמִ֔חַtatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it causes to grow
Judges
one use
However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.
- לְצַמֵּ֖חַletzameachpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to grow back
2 Samuel
two uses
When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
- יְצַמַּ֥חyetzamachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will grow back
Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
- יַצְמִֽיחַ׃yatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he make grow
1 Chronicles
one use
When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
- יְצַמַּ֥חyetzamachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will grow back
Job
three uses
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
- יִצְמַ֥חyitzmachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it springs up
Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
- יִצְמָֽחוּ׃yitzmachuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will spring up
to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
- וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַulehatzmiachconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to cause to sprout
Psalms
four uses
Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
- תִּצְמָ֑חtitzmachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it springs up
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
- מַצְמִ֤יחַmatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: causing to grow
There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
- אַצְמִ֣יחַʾatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will make grow
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- הַמַּצְמִ֖יחַhamatzmiachthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: who causes to sprout
Ecclesiastes
one use
I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
- צוֹמֵ֥חַtzomeachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sprouting of
Isaiah
eight uses
Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
- תִּצְמַ֖חְנָהtitzmachnahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will spring up
Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- תִצְמָ֔חtitzmachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is springing up
They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
- וְצָמְח֖וּvetzamechuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will spring up
Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
- תַצְמִ֙יחַ֙tatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: let it cause to sprout
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- וְהִצְמִיחָ֑הּvehitzmichahHc/Vhq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and it has made sprout it
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
- תִצְמָ֑חtitzmachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will spring up
For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
- תַצְמִ֑יחַtatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it makes grow
- יַצְמִ֤יחַyatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make grow
Jeremiah
one use
In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
- אַצְמִ֥יחַʾatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will cause to sprout
Ezekiel
three uses
I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.
- צִמֵּ֔חַtzimeachverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had grown
It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.
- וַיִּצְמַ֡חvaiyitzmachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it sprouted
In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- אַצְמִ֤יחַʾatzmiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will make grow
Zechariah
one use
And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.
- יִצְמָ֔חyitzmachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will sprout
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
