Bible Dictionary: Sprout

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.

2. (v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.

3. (v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.

4. (v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.

5. (n.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.

6. (v. i.) Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.

Greek

985. blastano -- to sprout, produce
... to sprout, produce. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: blastano Phonetic Spelling:
(blas-tan'-o) Short Definition: I sprout, cause to sprout, make to grow up ...
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1631. ekphuo -- to sprout up
... to sprout up. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekphuo Phonetic Spelling:
(ek-foo'-o) Short Definition: I put forth, cause to sprout Definition: I put forth ...
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5444. phullon -- a leaf
... word Definition a leaf NASB Word Usage leaf (1), leaves (5). leaf. From the same
as phule; a sprout, ie Leaf -- leaf. see GREEK phule. (phulla) -- 6 Occurrences ...
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5453. phuo -- to bring forth, produce
... A primary verb; probably originally, to "puff" or blow, ie To swell up; but only
used in the implied sense, to germinate or grow (sprout, produce), literally ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1876. dasha -- to sprout, shoot, grow green
... 1875, 1876. dasha. 1877 . to sprout, shoot, grow green. Transliteration: dasha
Phonetic Spelling: (daw-shaw') Short Definition: sprout. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6779. tsamach -- to sprout, spring up
... 6778, 6779. tsamach. 6780 . to sprout, spring up. Transliteration: tsamach
Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-makh') Short Definition: grow. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6780. tsemach -- a sprout, growth
... 6779, 6780. tsemach. 6781 . a sprout, growth. Transliteration: tsemach
Phonetic Spelling: (tseh'-makh) Short Definition: Branch. ...
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6524a. parach -- to bud, sprout, shoot
... 6524, 6524a. parach. 6524b . to bud, sprout, shoot. Transliteration:
parach Short Definition: flourish. Word Origin a prim. root ...
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7973. shelach -- a missile, weapon, sprout
... 7972, 7973. shelach. 7974 . a missile, weapon, sprout. Transliteration: shelach
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-lakh) Short Definition: weapon. ...
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6525. perach -- a bud, sprout
... 6524c, 6525. perach. 6526 . a bud, sprout. Transliteration: perach Phonetic
Spelling: (peh'-rakh) Short Definition: flowers. Word ...
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5342. netser -- a sprout, shoot
... 5341, 5342. netser. 5343 . a sprout, shoot. Transliteration: netser Phonetic
Spelling: (nay'-tser) Short Definition: branch. Word ...
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6524. parach -- to bud, sprout, shoot
... 6523, 6524. parach. 6524a . to bud, sprout, shoot. Transliteration: parach
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-rakh') Short Definition: abroad. ...
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2498. chalaph -- to pass on or away, pass through
... 5), gain new (2), go (1), move past (1), over (1), passed (1), passes (1), pierce
(1), pierced (1), renewed (1), replace (2), slip (1), sprout (1), sprouts ...
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3127. yoneqeth -- a young shoot, twig
... tender branch, young twig. Feminine of yowneq; a sprout -- (tender) branch, young
twig. see HEBREW yowneq. 3126, 3127. yoneqeth. 3128 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

But that You May not Suppose this to be a Novel Doctrine Peculiar ...
... resurrection of the dead. "There is hope for a tree; for if it be cut down it
will sprout again, and its shoot shall never fail. But if its ...
/.../44 but that you may.htm

The Resurrection
... The seeds must have heat, and damp, and darkness, and electricity, before they can
sprout; but the heat, and damp, and darkness, do not make them sprout; they ...
/.../kingsley/twenty-five village sermons/sermon xvii the resurrection.htm

The Sucker from the Felled Oak
... mutilation. We do not talk of a growth from the stump as being a 'branch';
and 'sprout' would better convey Isaiah's meaning. From ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the sucker from the felled.htm

The vine and the Branches
... This abiding requires a careful watchfulness lest there might be some sprout of
the old inward nature, which yet exists within the newly grafted branch, which ...
//christianbookshelf.org/byers/sanctification/chapter x the vine and.htm

The Germination of the Earth.
... When the germs begin to sprout they form grass; this develops and becomes a plant,
which insensibly receives its different articulations, and reaches its ...
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The General Service to a Monk.
... In the house of God hast thou, O father, vegetated up as the best sprout, being
adorned with virtues and filled with the sweet smell of a wonderful fruit. ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter xii the general service.htm

This is the Discourse Concerning Hades, Wherein the Souls of all ...
... among the more fruitful soil, they flourish, and what is sown is indeed sown bare
grain, but at the mighty sound of God the Creator, it will sprout up, and be ...
/.../josephus/discourse to the greeks concerning hades/section 5 this is the.htm

Sin Never to be Returned to after Repentance.
... But these dispositions have been wont to sprout from the seed of hypocrites, whose
friendship with the devil is indivisible, whose repentance never faithful. ...
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Prayer and the Word of God (Continued)
... Although the word lodges in their hearts and begins to sprout, yet all is lost,
chiefly because there is no prayer or watchfulness or cultivation following. ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/xiii prayer and the word.htm

Absolution.
... neck the blood sprung forth and formed fresh heads, multiplied and indestructible;
or like the weeds, which, extirpated in one place, sprout forth vigorously ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/robertson/sermons preached at brighton/v absolution.htm

Thesaurus

Sprout (25 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed. 4. (vt) To deprive
of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes. ...Sprout (25 Occurrences). ...
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Sprouted (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Sprout. Multi-Version Concordance
Sprouted (8 Occurrences). Matthew 13:26 and when the herb ...
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Grass (92 Occurrences)
... (2) deshe', from root meaning "to sprout abundantly." Generally ... Psalms 90:5 You sweep
them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. ...
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Zatthu (1 Occurrence)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary A sprout, Nehemiah 10:14. Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. ZATTHU. zat'-thu: In Nehemiah 10:14; the Revised ...
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Nazarene (19 Occurrences)
... Christ as "despised of men" (Isaiah 53:3). Some, however, think that in this name
there is an allusion to the Hebrew netser, which signifies a branch or sprout...
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Naboth (18 Occurrences)
... NABOTH. na'-both, na'-both (nabhoth, from nubh, "a sprout"; Nabouthai): The
owner of a vineyard contiguous to the palace of King Ahab. ...
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Nazareth (29 Occurrences)
... Separated, generally supposed to be the Greek form of the Hebrew netser, a "shoot"
or "sprout." Some, however, think that the name of the city must be ...
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Nepheg (4 Occurrences)
... NEPHEG. ne'-feg (nephegh, "sprout," "shoot"): (1) Son of Izhar, and brother of Korah
of the famous trio, Korah, Dathan and Abiram (Exodus 6:21). ...
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Genealogy (29 Occurrences)
... once, Nehemiah 7:5) the noun yachas; cepher ha-yachas, "book of the genealogy";
also translates a denominate verb in Hithpael, yachas, "sprout" "grow" (compare ...
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Flourish (26 Occurrences)
... translated "flourishing" in Psalm 92:14, the Revised Version (British and American)
"green," and ra`anan, Aramaic in Daniel 4:4; nubh, "to sprout" (Zechariah 9 ...
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Bible Concordance

Sprout (25 Occurrences)

Mark 4:27 he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
(Root in WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 21:30 when they already sprout, ye know of your own selves, on looking at them, that already the summer is near.
(DBY NIV)

Genesis 1:11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
(See NAS)

Genesis 2:9 and Jehovah God causeth to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
(YLT)

Numbers 17:5 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you."
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 29:23 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
(See RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 23:4 And as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, a morning without clouds; when through clear shining after rain, the tender grass springeth out of the earth.'
(See RSV)

Job 5:6 For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Job 8:16 He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
(DBY)

Job 14:7 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Job 38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?
(DBY NAS NIV)

Psalms 90:5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
(WEB NAS)

Psalms 92:7 When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
(See NAS RSV)

Psalms 132:17 There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 23:5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
(Root in WEB NIV)

Isaiah 4:2 In that day there shall be a sprout of Jehovah for beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth for excellency and for ornament for those that are escaped of Israel.
(DBY)

Isaiah 27:6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, that they may bring forth salvation, and let her cause righteousness to spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
(See RSV)

Isaiah 55:10 For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,
(See NAS RSV)

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her growth, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause victory and glory to spring forth before all the nations.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 29:21 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
(See NAS)

Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
(DBY)

Hosea 14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his fragrance as Lebanon.
(See NAS)

Amos 7:1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Sprout

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Sprouted (8 Occurrences)

Grass (92 Occurrences)

Zatthu (1 Occurrence)

Nazarene (19 Occurrences)

Naboth (18 Occurrences)

Nazareth (29 Occurrences)

Nepheg (4 Occurrences)

Genealogy (29 Occurrences)

Flourish (26 Occurrences)