Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #1503 - גֶּזַע geza (a stock)

Original Word:	גֶּזַע
Transliteration:	geza
Definition:	a stock, stem
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(geh'-zah)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

stem, stock

From an unused root meaning to cut down (trees); the trunk or stump of a tree (as felled or as planted) -- stem, stock.

Englishman's Concordance

1) stem, trunk, stock (of trees)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root meaning to cut down (trees)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 339a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[גֶּ֫זַע] noun masculine^{Job 14:8}stock, stem (Late Hebrew id., compare Syriac

stem, trunk) — construct גֶּזַעIsaiah 11:1; suffix גִּזְעוֺJob 14:8, גִּזְעָםIsaiah 40:24; — stock, stem of a tree Job 14:8 ("" שֹׁרֶשׁ); figurative ישׁי׳ג 'stem of JesseIsaiah 11:1 ("" שֹׁרֶשׁ); ׳שֹׁרֵשׁ בָּאָרֶץ גIsaiah 40:24 ("" נטע, זרע).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1503. גֶּ֫זַע (geza) — 3 Occurrences

Job 14:8
HEB:וּ֝בֶעָפָ֗ר יָמ֥וּת גִּזְעֽוֹ׃
NAS: in the ground And its stump dies
KJV: in the earth, and the stock thereof die
INT: the dry dies stump

Isaiah 11:1
HEB:וְיָצָ֥א חֹ֖טֶר מִגֵּ֣זַע יִשָׁ֑י וְנֵ֖צֶר
NAS: will spring from the stem of Jesse,
KJV: a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
INT: will spring A shoot the stem of Jesse branch

Isaiah 40:24
HEB:שֹׁרֵ֥שׁ בָּאָ֖רֶץ גִּזְעָ֑ם וְגַם־ נָשַׁ֤ף
NAS: Scarcely has their stock taken root
KJV: yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root
INT: taken the earth has their stock merely blows

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