Branch
נֵ֫צֶרStrong’s H5342netser (ne-tser)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Netser is the Hebrew word usually translated “branch”, “like a branch” and “shoot of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:”
Meaning
- Sprout, shoot, branch (always fig.)
How it's translated
- and a branch 1
- like a branch 1
- shoot of 1
- one of shoot of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 11:1And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
- Isaiah 14:19But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
- Isaiah 60:21Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Hebrew dictionary
נֵ֫צֶר netser · branch
sprout, shoot, branch (always fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “branch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BR'ANCH, noun
- The shoot of a tree or other plant; a limb; a bough shooting from the stem, or from another branch or bough.
- Any arm or extended part shooting or extended from the main body of a thing; as the branch of a candlestick or of an artery.
- Any member or part of a body, or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; as, charity is a branch of christian duty.
- Any individual of a family descending in a collateral line; any descendant from a common parent or stock.
All definitions and other forms of “branch”
- Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron which bear the bit, the cross chains and the curb.
- In architecture, branches of ogives are the arches of Gothic vaults, traversing from one angle to another diagonally, and forming a cross between the other arches, which make the sides of the square, of which these arches are diagonals.
- A warrant or commission given to a pilot.
- A chandelier.
BR'ANCH, verb intransitive
To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify, as a plant, or as horns.
- To divide into separate parts, or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.
- To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.
- To have horns shooting out.
BR'ANCH, verb transitive
To divide as into branches; to make subordinate divisions.
- To adorn with needle work, representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
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.