Strong’s H1503 · Hebrew
גֶּזַע
gezaʻ · geh'-zah
Origin from an unused root meaning to cut down (trees);
Meaning the trunk or stump of atree (as felled or as planted)
In the King James Version stem, stock.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Job 14:8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
- Isaiah 11:1And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
- Isaiah 40:24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.