Blossom
סְמַדֵרStrong’s H5563semadar (se-ma-dar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Semadar is the Hebrew word usually translated “blossom”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.”
Meaning
- Grape blossom, grape bud
How it's translated
- blossom 2
- the blossom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 2:15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
- Song of Solomon 7:12Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Hebrew dictionary
סְמַדֵר semadar · blossom
grape blossom, grape bud
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “blossom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLOS'SOM, noun
[Gr. a bud, probably from the same root.]
- The flower or corol of a plant; a general term, applicable to every species of tree or plant, but more generally used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed.
- This word is used to denote the color of a horse, that has his hair white, but intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; otherwise, peach-colored.
All definitions and other forms of “blossom”
BLOS'SOM, verb intransitive
To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
- To flourish and prosper.“The desert shall blossom as the rose” Isaiah 35:1
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.