To blossom
צוּץStrong’s H6692tsuts
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsuts is the Hebrew word usually translated “it had blossomed”, “may people blossom” and “it flourishes”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.”
Meaning
- To blossom, shine, sparkle(Qal) · (Hiphil) to blossom, put forth blossoms, produce blossoms
- (Hiphil) to gaze, peep, glance, make the eyes sparkle
How it's translated
- and it had blossomed 1
- and may people blossom 1
- it flourishes 1
- and they blossomed 1
- he flourishes 1
- it will shine 1
- peering 1
- it will blossom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Numbers 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 72:16There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
- Psalms 90:6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
- Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- Psalms 132:18His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
- Song of Solomon 2:9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Hebrew dictionary
צוּץ tsuts · to blossom
1) to blossom, shine, sparkle 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to flourish 1a2) to shine, gleam 1b) (Hiphil) to blossom, put forth blossoms, produce blossoms
צוּץ tsuts · to gaze
(Hiphil) to gaze, peep, glance, make the eyes sparkle
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.