נֵ֫צֶר
sprout
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
2 distinct verses where H5342 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 11:1 וְ/נֵ֖צֶר conj + n c ms There shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
- Isaiah 14:19 כְּ/נֵ֣צֶר prep + n c ms But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
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 נצר centers on the idea of “sprout.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Isaiah (75%), then Daniel. Its earliest occurrence is Isaiah 11:1. It shares a root with נצר and נציר. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5342 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 75%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 25%
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: Branch 4×
- American Standard Version: Branch 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Branch 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Branch 2×, Branch of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5342 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5342 across 4 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 H5342 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear 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 H5342 across 5 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.
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.
- sprout, shoot, branch (always figuratively)
Word origin
n.m. sprout, shoot, in fig. uses:—נ׳ abs. Is 11:1; 14:19; (sim.); cstr. 60:21 (נ׳ מַטָּעַי), Dn 11:7 (מִנּ׳ שָׁרָשֶׁיהָ; but 𝔊 Bev ‘poss.’ נ׳ מִשָּׁרָשֶׁיהָ).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נצר (nâtsar) (H5341) — to guard.
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.
נָצַר
- to preserve, guard. B. Bath. 91ᵇ (play on היוצרים, I Chr. IV, 23) שנָצְרוּ שבועות וכ׳ who guarded their father’s oath (of abstinence). Ber. 17ᵃ נְצוֹר תורתי וכ׳ keep my law in thy heart. Ib. נצור לשוני מרע guard my tongue from evil. Tanḥ. B’midbar 13 עד היכן נְצָרָן up to what degree did He guard them?; Num. R. s. 2. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXL רצונך שאֶצָּרְךָ נצור וכ׳ if it is thy desire that I guard thee, guard thou my law; a. fr. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:23
נְצַר
- (cmp. Arab. ṣarṣara, a. צַרְצוּר) to chirp. Lev. R. s. 33 end (play on נבוכד נצר) נבח … נ׳ כצרצרא bark like a dog …, chirp like a cricket; מיד … נ׳ וכ׳ presently he … chirped &c.; Cant. R. to II, 14.
נֵצֶר I
- (preced.) cricket.—Pl. נְצָרִין. Tosef. Ḥull. III, 25 (Ḥull. 65ᵇ צרצור).
נֵצֶר II
- cmp. Arab. naḍara, sprout, offshoot. Tanḥ. Lekh, ed. Bub. 9 אם ניטלין נ׳ מהם וכ׳ if you take a shoot of them (the felled trees) and plant it &c.; Tanḥ. ib. 5 ונוטעין מנִצְרָה שלהן.
נֵצֶר III
- (cmp. מֵצַר II) [twist,] willow, wicker. Erub. 58ᵃ (חבל) של נ׳ a wicker rope.—Pl. נְצָרִים. Ib. Kel. XX, 2 כלי נ׳ (ed. Dehr. נְסָרִים) vessels of wickerwork. Bicc. III, 8 סלי נ׳ (Ms. M. נס׳) wicker baskets; a. fr.—Tosef. Toh. XI, 16 נוֹצְרִין.
נֵצֶר IV
- 1. Netsar, one of the alleged disciples of Jesus of Nazareth. Snh. 43ᵃ Ms. M. a. ed. Ven. (omitted in later edit., v. בּוּנִי).
- 2. בֶּן נ׳ Ben-Netsar (son of Nassor) name of a chief of robbers who became founder of a dynasty, i.e. Odenathus of Palmyra (v. Cyclop. Brit. s. v. Palmyra, Ersch u. Gruber II, Vol. 27, p. 185, Fürst Gloss., p. 145). Keth. 51ᵇ (opp. to מלכות אחשורוש the legitimate Persian dynasty). Gen. R. s. 76; Yalk. Dan. 1064 בן נָצוֹר. Y. Ter. VIII, 46ᵇ bot. בר ניצור.
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 4 distinct written forms H5342 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/נֵ֖צֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 11:1 | 1 |
| כְּ/נֵ֣צֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 14:19 | 1 |
| מִ/נֵּ֥צֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 11:7 | 1 |
| נֵ֧צֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 60:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5342, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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