Grass
עֲשַׂבStrong’s H6212asav (a-sav)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Asav is the Hebrew word usually translated “vegetation of”, “vegetation” and “plant”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.”
Meaning
- Herbage, grass
How it's translated
- vegetation of 10
- vegetation 8
- plant 5
- grass 2
- like vegetation of 2
- like vegetation 2
- and on vegetation of 1
- and vegetation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 7
- Psalms 7
- Exodus 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:11And 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.
- 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.
- Genesis 1:29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Genesis 1:30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Genesis 2:5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
- Genesis 3:18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Hebrew dictionary
עֲשַׂב asav · grass
herbage, grass Aramaic of e.sev (עֵ֫שֶׂב "vegetation" H6212)
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.