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To spring

צָמַחStrong’s H6779

tsamach (tsa-mach)

Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tsamach is the Hebrew word usually translated “springing up”, “it will grow back” and “it springs up”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.

“And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:”
Zechariah 6:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. To sprout, spring up, grow up(Qal) · (Piel) to grow abundantly or thickly · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • springing up 2
  • it will grow back 2
  • it springs up 2
  • they will spring up 2
  • i will make grow 2
  • was sprouting 1
  • and he made sprout 1
  • will cause to sprout 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 7
  • Genesis 5
  • Psalms 4
  • Job 3
  • Ezekiel 3
  • 2 Samuel 2

14 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 32 verses, by book
Exodus 1
10:5
Leviticus 1
13:37
Deuteronomy 1
29:23
Judges 1
16:22
2 Samuel 2
10:523:5
1 Chronicles 1
19:5
Ecclesiastes 1
2:6
Jeremiah 1
33:15
Ezekiel 3
16:717:629:21
Zechariah 1
6:12
Hebrew dictionary

צָמַח tsamach · to spring

1) to sprout, spring up, grow up 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to sprout, spring up 1a1a) of plants 1a1b) of hair 1a1c) of speech (fig.) 1b) (Piel) to grow abundantly or thickly 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to grow 1c2) to cause to sprout

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SPRING, verb intransitive

preterit tense sprung, [sprang, not wholly obsolete; ] participle passive sprung.

  1. To vegetate and rise out of the ground; to begin to appear; as vegetables.“To satisfy the desolate ground, and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth” Job 38:27
  2. To begin to grow.
  3. To proceed, as from the seed or cause.
  4. To arise; to appear; to begin to appear or exist.“When the day began to spring they let her go” Judges 19:25
All definitions and other forms of “spring”
  1. To break forth; to issue into sight or notice.
  2. To issue or proceed, as from ancestors or from a country.
  3. To proceed, as from a cause, reason, principle, or other original.
  4. To grow; to thrive.
  5. To proceed or issue, as from a fountain or source.
  6. To leap; to bound; to jump.
  7. To fly back; to start; as, a bow when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
  8. To start or rise suddenly from a covert.
  9. To shoot; to issue with speed and violence.
  10. To bend or wind from a straight direction or plane surface.

SPRING, verb transitive

  1. To start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
  2. To produce quickly or unexpectedly.
  3. To start; to contrive or to produce or propose on a sudden; to produce unexpectedly.
  4. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
  5. To burst; to cause to open; as, to spring a leak.
  6. To crack; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
  7. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap; as, to spring a trap.

SPRING, noun

  1. A leap; a bound; a jump; as of an animal.
  2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as the spring of a bow.
  3. Elastic power or force.
  4. An elastic body; a body which, when bent or forced from its natural state, has the power of recovering it; as the spring of a watch or clock.
  5. Any active power; that by which action or motion is produced or propagated.
  6. A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue.
  7. The place where water usually issues from the earth, though no water is there.
  8. A source; that from which supplies are drawn.
  9. Rise; original; as the spring of the day. 1 Samuel 9:26
  10. Cause; original.
  11. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and rise; the vernal season.
  12. In seamens language, a crack in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. [In the sense of leak, I believe it is not used.]
  13. A rope passed out of a ships stern and attached to a cable proceeding from her bow, when she is at anchor.
  14. A plant; a shoot; a young tree. [Not in use.]
  15. A youth. [Not in use.]
  16. A hand; a shoulder of pork. [Not in use.]

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.