שָׁתַל
sha.tal (H8362)
to transplant
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# Hebrew Word Analysis: שָׁתַל (Shatal) The Hebrew verb *shatal* denotes the specific action of transplanting—moving a plant from one location to another for continued growth. Unlike general terms for planting, this word carries the sense of relocation and establishment rather than initial sowing. The term appears ten times throughout the biblical text, indicating it was a recognized horticultural practice in ancient Israel with sufficient cultural relevance to warrant its own dedicated vocabulary. The existence and use of *shatal* reflects the agricultural reality of ancient Levantine farming, where transplanting seedlings was a practical technique for managing orchards, gardens, and cultivated spaces. The word's presence in the biblical lexicon suggests that such activity was common enough to merit specific linguistic distinction from other planting methods. This precision in agricultural vocabulary demonstrates how biblical Hebrew developed specialized terms to describe the practical activities central to daily life in an agrarian society.
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He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.” ’
Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.” ’ ”
“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.
“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.