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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 31
    spellings

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.

The other 25 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

צָמַתtsamathto destroyUses15
צָמַדtsamadto joinUses5
צָמַקtsamaqto shrivelUses1

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.

    Genesis 2:5

    • 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.

    Genesis 2:9

    • וַיַּצְמַ֞חvaiyatzmachHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made sprout
  • Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

    Genesis 3:18

    • 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.

    Genesis 41:6

    • צֹמְח֖וֹתtzomechotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: springing up
  • After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.

    Genesis 41:23

    • 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.

    Exodus 10:5

    • 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.

    Leviticus 13:37

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 29:23

    • 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.

    Judges 16:22

    • 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.”

    2 Samuel 10:5

    • 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?

    2 Samuel 23:5

    • 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.”

    1 Chronicles 19:5

    • 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.

    Job 5:6

    • 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.

    Job 8:19

    • 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?

    Job 38:27

    • 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.

    Psalms 85:11

    • 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:

    Psalms 104:14

    • 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.

    Psalms 132:17

    • 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.

    Psalms 147:8

    • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 2:6

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 42:9

    • 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.

    Isaiah 43:19

    • תִצְמָ֔חtitzmachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is springing up
  • They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

    Isaiah 44:4

    • 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.

    Isaiah 45:8

    • 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,

    Isaiah 55:10

    • 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.

    Isaiah 58:8

    • 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.

    Isaiah 61:11

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 33:15

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 16:7

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 17:6

    • 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.”

    Ezekiel 29:21

    • 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.

    Zechariah 6:12

    • יִצְמָ֔חyitzmachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will sprout

The letters

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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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