צָמַח
tsâmach · tsaw-makh'
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bear, bring forth, (cause to, make to) bud (forth), (cause to, make to) grow (again, up), (cause to) spring (forth, up).
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to separate and protect
To pursue the straight path of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to separate and protect.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צָמַח above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
33 occurrences · 33 OT · 0 NT · 31 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to grow3 · 10%
- sprung up2 · 7%
- be grown2 · 7%
- to spring forth2 · 7%
- it grew1 · 3%
- made1 · 3%
- shall it bring forth1 · 3%
- which groweth1 · 3%
- grown1 · 3%
- nor beareth1 · 3%
- to grow again1 · 3%
- although he make it not to grow1 · 3%
- spring out1 · 3%
- grow1 · 3%
- shall spring out1 · 3%
- there will i make1 · 3%
- to bud1 · 3%
- that bringeth forth1 · 3%
- before they spring forth1 · 3%
- now it shall spring forth1 · 3%
- and they shall spring up1 · 3%
- spring up1 · 3%
- and bud1 · 3%
- shall spring forth1 · 3%
- in it to spring forth1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.