Sunday, February 22, 2015

Part 2: Jesse and the Stem, Rod, Branch and Root

  1. Jesse
  1. Stem of Jesse
  2. Branch from Rod's roots (or from Jesse's roots???)
  3. Rod
  1. Root of Jesse
  1. Future King David???

D&C 113:1 Who is the Stem of Jesse spoken of in the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 5th verses of the 11th chapter of Isaiah?
D&C 113:2 Verily thus saith the Lord: It is Christ.

Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.

וְיָצָא חֹטֶר מִגֵּזַע יִשָׁי וְנֵצֶר מִשָּׁרָשָׁיו יִפְרֶה

Translation
Full Hebrew
Root Form (Hebrew)
Strong's
will come forth
וְיָצָא
יָצָא yatsa'
h3318   
branch/twig/rod
חֹטֶר 
חֹטֶר choter
h2415   
from stem/stock/trunk
מִגֵּזַע
גֶּזַע geza`
h1503   
Jesse
יִשָׁי
יִשַׁי Yishay
h3448   
and a sprout/shoot/branch
וְנֵצֶר
נֵצֶר netser
h5342   
will bear fruit/be fruitful/branch off
מִשָּׁרָשָׁיו
שֶׁרֶשׁsheresh
h8328  
from roots
יִפְרֶה
פָּרָה parah
h6509   









גֶּזַע geza` - stem/stock/trunk

"גֶּזַע" Also found in:
Isaiah 11:1 A shoot will spring up from the stock of Jesse and a branch from its graft bear fruit.

Isaiah 40:24 When scarcely they are planted, or scarcely they are sown, when hardly their stock has taken root in the earth, he puffs at them and they wither, and a storm sweeps them off as chaff.

Job 14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

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