שִׂיחַsîyach

bush, shrub, plant (Job 30:4; Genesis 2:5; Job 30:7; Genesis 21:15)

Pronunciation: see'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7880

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 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 21:15 When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush.
  • Job 30:4 They pluck wild greens from among the bushes and eat from the roots of broom trees.
  • Job 30:7 They sound like animals howling among the bushes, huddled together beneath the nettles.

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).