Strong's Hebrew · H1503

גֶּזַע

gezaʻ · geh'-zah

stem, stock.

Definition

the trunk or stump of atree (as felled or as planted)

Derivation

from an unused root meaning to cut down (trees);

Appears 3 times in Scripture

Job 14:8

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

Isaiah 40:24

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Isaiah 11:1

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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