'Stem' in the Bible

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

They are barely planted, barely sown,their stem hardly takes root in the groundwhen He blows on them and they wither,and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.