Grass
דֶּ֫תֶאStrong’s H1883dete (de-te)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dete is the Aramaic word usually translated “grass the”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:”
Meaning
- Grass
How it's translated
- in grass the 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
דֶּ֫תֶא dete · grass
grass Aramaic of de.she (דֶּ֫שֶׁא "grass" H1877)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.