Vegetable
זֵרֹעַStrong’s H2235zeroa (ze-ro-a)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zeroa is the Hebrew word usually translated “vegetables”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.”
Meaning
- Vegetables (as sown)
- Vegetables (as sown)
How it's translated
- the vegetables 1
- vegetables 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
זֵרֹעַ zeroa · vegetable
vegetables (as sown) Also means: zar.on (זֵֽרְעֹן "vegetable" H2235B)
זֵֽרְעֹן zaron · vegetable
vegetables (as sown) Another spelling of ze.ro.a (זֵרֹעַ "vegetable" H2235A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vegetable” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VEG'ETABLE, noun
[Latin vigeo, to grow.]
- A plant; an organized body destitute of sense and voluntary motion, deriving its nourishment through pores or vessels on its outer surface, in most instances adhering to some other body, as the earth, and in general, propagating itself by seeds. some vegetables have spontaneous motion, as the sunflower.
- In a more limited sense, vegetables are such plants as are used for culinary purposes and cultivated in gardens, or are destined for feeding cattle and sheep.
All definitions and other forms of “vegetable”
VEG'ETABLE, adjective
- Belonging to plants; as a vegetable nature; vegetable qualities; vegetable juices.
- Consisting of plants; as the vegetable kingdom.
- having the nature of plants; as a vegetable body.
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.