Grass
חָצִירStrong’s H2682chatsir (cha-tsir)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatsir is the Hebrew word usually translated “grass”, “like grass” and “grass of”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:”
Meaning
- 1a) grass
- Grass, leek, green grass, herbage
How it's translated
- grass 12
- like grass 3
- grass of 2
- herbage 2
- the leek 1
- like grass of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Psalms 6
- Job 2
- Numbers 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 18:5And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
- 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 8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
- Job 40:15Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
- Psalms 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
- Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Hebrew dictionary
חָצִיר chatsir · grass
1a) grass 1b) of the quickly perishing (fig.)
חָצִיר chatsir · leek
grass, leek, green grass, herbage
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.