Quick Definition
to spring
Strong's Definition
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: bear, bring forth, (cause to, make to) bud (forth), (cause to, make to) grow (again, up), (cause to) spring (forth, up).
TWOT Reference: 1928
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
צָמַח (tsa.mach) — to spring. 1) to sprout, spring up, grow up 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to sprout, spring up 1a1a) of plants 1a1b) of hair 1a1c) of speech (fig.) 1b) (Piel) to grow abundantly or thickly 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to grow 1c2) to cause to sprout
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · צֶמַח
Stage | verb qal
to sprout, to come up, to spring up = process by which plants, trees, or hairs come up and start growing; ≈ sometimes extended to denote the coming in existence of people, conditions, or activities
GEN 2:5 · GEN 41:6 · GEN 41:23 · EXO 10:5 · LEV 13:37 · JOB 5:6 · JOB 8:19 · PSA 85:12 · ECC 2:6 · ISA 44:4 · EZK 17:6 · ZEC 6:12
Stage | verb hif
to cause to sprout, to make come up, to cause to bring forth = causative process by which a deity or the earth causes plants or horns to come up and start growing; ≈ sometimes extended to denote the coming in existence of people, conditions, or activities
GEN 2:9 · GEN 3:18 · DEU 29:22 · 2SA 23:5 · JOB 38:27 · PSA 104:14 · PSA 132:17 · PSA 147:8 · ISA 45:8 · ISA 55:10 · ISA 61:11 · ISA 61:11 · JER 33:15 · EZK 29:21
Stage | verb pi
to grow = process by which the hair of one's body grows to a certain length
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
צָמַח vb. sprout, spring up Qal sprout, spring up
Pi. grow abundantly
Hiph. cause to grow
of rain, cause the earth to sprout
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