צָמַחtsâmach
sprout, spring up
Pronunciation: tsaw-makh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6779
Meanings
Qal: sprout, spring up (Leviticus 13:37; Isaiah 44:4; Job 5:6)
1. of plants, trees, etc. (Genesis 2:5; Exodus 10:5; Genesis 41:6)
2. of hair (Leviticus 13:37)
Pi`el: grow abunduntly, always of hair (Ezekiel 16:7; 2 Samuel 10:5; 1 Chronicles 19:5)
Hiph`il
1. cause to grow (Genesis 2:9; Psalms 104:14; Job 38:27)
2. cause, to sprout, of rain (Isaiah 55:10)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 33 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:5 neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.
- Genesis 2:9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 3:18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
- Genesis 41:6 Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were shriveled and withered by the east wind.
- Genesis 41:23 Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were blighted, shriveled, and withered by the east wind.
- Exodus 10:5 They will cover the land so that you won’t be able to see the ground. They will devour what little is left of your crops after the hailstorm, including all the trees growing in the fields.
See every passage
- Genesis 2:5, 2:9, 3:18, 41:6, 41:23
- Exodus 10:5
- Leviticus 13:37
- Deuteronomy 29:23
- Judges 16:22
- 2 Samuel 10:5, 23:5
- 1 Chronicles 19:5
- Job 5:6, 8:19, 38:27
- Psalms 85:11, 104:14, 132:17, 147:8
- Ecclesiastes 2:6
- Isaiah 42:9, 43:19, 44:4, 45:8, 55:10, 58:8, 61:11
- Jeremiah 33:15
- Ezekiel 16:7, 17:6, 29:21
- Zechariah 6:12
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).