Hebrew

Noun

גֶּזַע • ‎(géza') m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. trunk, stock (of a tree)
   • Isaiah 40:24, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     אַף בַּל־נִטָּעוּ אַף בַּל־זֹרָעוּ אַף בַּל־שֹׁרֵשׁ בָּאָרֶץ גִּזְעָם וְגַם־נָשַׁף בָּהֶם וַיִּבָשׁוּ וּסְעָרָה כַּקַּשׁ תִּשָּׂאֵם׃‎

     'af bal-nitá'u 'af bal-zorá'u 'af bal-shorésh ba'árets giz'ám v'gam-nasháf bahém vayiváshu us'ará kakásh tisa'ém.
     ʾap̄ bal-nittā́ʿū ʾap̄ bal-zōrā́ʿū ʾap̄ bal-šōrēš bāʾā́reṣ gizʿām wəḡam-nāšap̄ bāhem wayyīḇā́šū ūsəʿārā kaqqaš tiśśāʾēm.

     Scarce are they planted, scarce are they sown, scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth; when He bloweth upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

2. race (large genealogical group)
3. (grammar) stem

References

• “H1503”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979