צוּץ tsûwts — to twinkle, i.e. glance
Translated in the KJV as bloom, blossom, flourish, shew self.
a primitive root; to twinkle, i.e. glance; by analogy, to blossom (figuratively, flourish).
tsûwts in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Wayyiqtol 2Participle (active) 1
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›