Lexical Definition

‎גֶּזַע‎ gezaʻ (geh'-zah) stock ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to cut down (trees)

stem, stock.

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

1) stem, trunk, stock (of trees)

See Greek: ῥίζα

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎גֶּ֫זַע‎] noun masculine^{Job 14:8} stock, stem (Late Hebrew id., compare Syriac stem, trunk) — construct ‎גֶּזַע‎ Isa 11:1 suffix ‎גִּזְעוֺ‎ Job 14:8, ‎גִּזְעָם‎ Isa 40:24 — stock, stem of a tree Job 14:8 (|| ‎שֹׁרֶשׁ‎); figurative ‎ישׁי‎ ‎׳‎‎ג‎ 'stem of Jesse' Isa 11:1 (|| ‎שֹׁרֶשׁ‎); ‎׳‎‎שֹׁרֵשׁ בָּאָרֶץ ג‎ Isa 40:24 (|| ‎נטע‎, ‎זרע‎).

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