H8363 H8363
transplanted shoots/slips — young plants that have been transplanted, used metaphorically for children
This agricultural term appears in Psalm 128:3, where children are compared to 'olive slips' or transplanted shoots around the family table. The imagery draws on viticulture and horticulture: young plants carefully transplanted to flourish. Just as olive shoots promise future fruit and oil, so children represent generational blessing and continuity. The simile beautifully captures both vulnerability and productive potential.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The construct plural 'slips of olive' in Psalm 128:3 uses horticultural imagery for children. Transplanted shoots were carefully nurtured to ensure growth, making them an apt metaphor for offspring who carry forward the family line. The cross-linguistic glosses uniformly recognize the plant imagery, with slight variations in specificity (shoots, plants, slips). The domain 'Nature, Class, Example' reflects the simile structure. 1×
AR["كَغَرسِ"]·ben["যেমন-চারা"]·DE["wie-plants-of"]·EN["like-plants-of"]·FR["comme-plant"]·heb["כ-שתילי"]·HI["पौधों-की-तरह"]·ID["seperti-tunas-tunas"]·IT["[כשתלי]"]·jav["kados-seselan"]·KO["감람나무-묘목들-같이"]·PT["como-plantas-de"]·RU["как-побеги"]·ES["como-plantas-de"]·SW["kama-miche-ya"]·TR["fidanları-gibi"]·urd["پودوں-کی-طرح"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [שָׁתִיל] n.[m.] transplanted shoot, slip;—pl. cstr. שְׁתִלֵי זֵיתִים ψ 128:3 slips of olive (in simile).