גֶּ֫זַע
trunk
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1503 appears in the Book of Job — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun גזע centers on the idea of “trunk.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Isaiah dominates its distribution — 2 of 3 verses. Debuting at Job 14:8, it then recurs through the corpus. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1503 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Stem 1×, Stock 1×, Yea their stock 1×
- American Standard Version: Stock 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stump 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stem 1×, Stump 1×, Stump of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1503 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1503 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1503 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1503 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- stem, trunk, stock (of trees)
Word origin
[ גֶּ֫זַע ] n.m. stock, stem
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to cut down (trees)
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
*גָּזַע
- (cmp. גָּדַע) to cut off, lop off. [Gen. R. s. 12 גזעה קומתו, read גָּוְעָה, v. גָּוע.]
גֶּזַע
- preced.) trunk, stem, stump; that which grows out of the trunk, shoot. B. Bath. V, 4 העולה מן הג׳ whatever shoots out of the trunk, opp. שרשים; defined ib. 82ᵃ כל שרואה … מן הג׳ whatever sees (when shooting) the light of day is ‘from the geza’ (and belongs to the owner of the tree). Ib. דקל אין לו ג׳ a date tree has no geza, i.e. the purchaser of a date tree has no claim on shoots growing out of the trunk; ib. אין לו ג׳ לבעל הדקל לפי שאין לו ג׳ Ms. M. (ed. שאין מוציא ג׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) the owner … has no claim &c., because the stump of a date-tree has no shoots. Ib. 80ᵇ אין גִּזְעָן מחליף their stump grows no new shoots. Nidd. 55ᵃ שער … גִּזְעוֹ מחליף hair, if cut, grows again. Ib. בשר ג׳ מחליף flesh, if cut, regenerates; a. fr.—Trnsf. (of persons) ג׳ ישישים a shoot, offspring of worthy men M. Kat. 25ᵇ
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H1503 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גִּזְעָ֑/ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 40:24 | 1 |
| גִּזְעֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Job 14:8 | 1 |
| מִ/גֵּ֣זַע | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 11:1 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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