Bush
שִׂיחַStrong’s H7880siach (si-ach)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Siach is the Hebrew word usually translated “shrub of”, “bushes” and “bush”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”
Meaning
- Bush, plant, shrub
How it's translated
- shrub of 1
- the bushes 1
- bush 1
- bushes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Job 2
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׂיחַ siach · bush
bush, plant, shrub
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUSH, noun
[Latin pasco, originally, to feed on sprouts.]
- A shrub with branches; a thick shrub; also, a cluster of shrubs.
- An assemblage of branches interwoven.
- A branch of a tree fixed or hung out as a tavern sign.
- A circle of metal let into the sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, to prevent their wearing.
All definitions and other forms of “bush”
BUSH, verb intransitive
To grow thick or bushy.
BUSH, verb transitive
To furnish a block with a bush
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.