Grass
דֶּ֫שֶׁאStrong’s H1877deshe (de-she)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Deshe is the Hebrew word usually translated “vegetation”, “grass” and “like grass”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”
Meaning
- Grass, new grass, green herb, vegetation, young
How it's translated
- vegetation 7
- grass 6
- like grass 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Genesis 2
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Deuteronomy 32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
- 2 Samuel 23:4And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
- 2 Kings 19:26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
- Job 6:5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
- Job 38:27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Hebrew dictionary
דֶּ֫שֶׁא deshe · grass
grass, new grass, green herb, vegetation, young Aramaic equivalent: de.te (דֶּ֫תֶא "grass" H1883)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grass” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GR'ASS, noun
- In common usage, herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts.
- In botany, a plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, a husky calyx, called glume, and the seed single.
All definitions and other forms of “grass”
GR'ASS, verb transitive
To cover with grass or with turf.
GR'ASS, verb intransitive
To breed grass; to be covered with grass
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.