Hebrew

To sprout

דָּשָׁאStrong’s H1876

dasah (da-sah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Dasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “let it sprout” and “are green”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”

Genesis 1:11 KJV

Meaning

To sprout, shoot, grow green(Qal) to sprout, grow green · (Hiphil) to cause to sprout, cause to shoot forth

How it's translated

let it sprout 1
they are green 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Genesis 1
Joel 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Joel 2:22Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Hebrew dictionary

דָּשָׁא dasah · to sprout

1) to sprout, shoot, grow green 1a) (Qal) to sprout, grow green 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to sprout, cause to shoot forth

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “sprout” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SPROUT, verb intransitive

[G.]

To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots.
To shoot into ramifications.
To grow, like shoots of plants.

All definitions and other forms of “sprout”

SPROUT, noun

The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed or from the stump or from the root of a plant or tree.
A shoot from the end of a branch.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.