Herb
יָרָקStrong’s H3419yaraq (ya-raq)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaraq is the Hebrew word usually translated “vegetables”, “greenery of” and “vegetable”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:”
Meaning
- Herbs, herbage, vegetables, garden greens
How it's translated
- vegetables 2
- and greenery of 2
- vegetable 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 21:2And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
- 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.
- Proverbs 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
- Isaiah 37:27Therefore 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 housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Hebrew dictionary
יָרָק yaraq · herb
herbs, herbage, vegetables, garden greens
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “herb” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HERB, noun
erb. [Latin herba.]
- A plant or vegetable with a soft or succulent stalk or stem, which dies to the root every year, and is thus distinguished from a tree and a shrub, which have ligneous or hard woody stems.
- In the Linnean botany, that part of a vegetable which springs from the root and is terminated by the fructification, including the stem or stalk, the leaves, the fulcra or props, and the hibernacle.
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.