Words

צָמַח H6779

Home gloss

spring up (qal); make spring up (hiphil)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

grow

Note

Of what comes up from the ground (3:18; 41:6, 23). The noun צֶמַח is the royal "Shoot" (Jer 23:5; Zech 6:12, "he will spring up from his place"). "Sprout" is kept for דָּשָׁא (1:11) by reverse concordance

Rulings

2, 20

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 2

• 2:5 now no shrub of the field was yet in the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Elohim had not made it rain on the land, and human there was none to serve the ground;
• 2:9 And Elohim made spring up from the ground every tree desirable to the sight and good for fare, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowing good and bad.

Genesis 3

• 3:18 And thorn and thistle it shall make spring up for you, and you shall eat the plant of the field.