Offspring
סָחִישׁStrong’s H7823shachis (sha-chis)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachis is the Hebrew word usually translated “self-seeded plant”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.”
Meaning
- Volunteer graingrain that shoots up of itself the second year, without replanting
How it's translated
- self-seeded plant 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
סָחִישׁ shachis · offspring
1) volunteer grain 1a) grain that shoots up of itself the second year, without replanting
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “offspring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OFF'SPRING, noun
[off and spring.
- A child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. Acts 17:28Revelation 22:16
- Propagation; generation.
- Production of any kind.
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.