Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6780
צֶמַח
tsemachtseh'-makh
branch
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6780is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6780
a sprout (usually concrete), literal or figurative
The King James renders it: branch, bud, that which (where) grew (upon), spring(-ing).
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
tsemach is rendered "branch". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:25Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
Genesis 19:25וְצֶ֖מַח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- growth its4
- branch2
- a branch1
- a branch of1
- and growth of1
- branch of1
- growth1
- like growth of1
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.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- צֶ֣מַח3
- וְצֶ֖מַח1
- כְּצֶ֤מַח1
- צֶ֚מַח1
- צֶ֤מַח1
- צֶֽמַח׃1
- צִמְחָ֥הּ1
- צִמְחָ֔הּ1
- צִמְחָהּ֙1
- צִמְחָ֖הּ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular4HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Genesis
one use
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
- וְצֶ֖מַחvetzemachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and growth of
Psalms
one use
You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
- צִמְחָ֥הּtzimchahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: growth its
Isaiah
two uses
On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
- צֶ֣מַחtzemachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: branch of
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.
- צִמְחָ֔הּtzimchahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: growth its
Jeremiah
two uses
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
- צֶ֣מַחtzemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a branch
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.
- צֶ֣מַחtzemachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a branch of
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.
- כְּצֶ֤מַחketzemachpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like growth of
So you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.
- צִמְחָהּ֙tzimchahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: growth its
Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”
- צִמְחָ֖הּtzimchahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: growth its
Hosea
one use
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- צֶ֚מַחtzemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: growth
Zechariah
two uses
Hear now, O high priest Joshua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch.
- צֶֽמַח׃tzemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: branch
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.
- צֶ֤מַחtzemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: Branch
Where it leads
Studies that open this word3
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.