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Lexicon :: Strong's H6212 - ʿēśeḇ

Aa
עֵשֶׂב
Transliteration
ʿēśeḇ
Pronunciation
eh'seb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1707a

Strong’s Definitions

עֶשֶׂב ʻeseb, eh'seb; from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green); grass (or any tender shoot):—grass, herb.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x

The KJV translates Strong's H6212 in the following manner: herb (17x), grass (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x
The KJV translates Strong's H6212 in the following manner: herb (17x), grass (16x).

  1. herb, herbage, grass, green plants

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶשֶׂב ʻeseb, eh'seb; from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green); grass (or any tender shoot):—grass, herb.
STRONGS H6212: Abbreviations
† עֵ֫שֶׂב noun masculineGenesis 1:11 herb, herbage; — ע׳ absolute Deuteronomy 11:15 +; construct Genesis 2:5 +; suffix עֶשְׂבָּם Isaiah 42:15; plural construct עִשְּׂבוֺת (dagesh forte dirimens) Proverbs 27:25; — herb, herbage, in oldest use often general (therefore including grass [דֶּשֶׁא]): הַשָּׂדֶה ע׳ Exodus 9:22 (E), Genesis 2:5 (+ שִׂיחַ) Exodus 9:25 (+ עֵץ), Exodus 10:15 (+ id; all J) Amos 7:2, so הָאָרֶץ ע׳ Exodus 10:12 (E), + הָעֵץ פְּרִי Exodus 10:15 (J), whence Psalm 105:35; apparently generally also in הארץ ע׳ Job 5:25; Psalm 72:16, ע׳ alone Psalm 92:8; כָּלהַֿשָּׂדֶה ע׳ Jeremiah 12:14, ע׳ alone Deuteronomy 32:2 (|| דֶּשֶׁא), Isaiah 42:15; Psalm 102:5; Psalm 102:12, and Deuteronomy 29:22; Micah 5:6; Proverbs 19:12; hence ע׳ as food for cattle Deuteronomy 11:15; Psalm 106:20 compare Jeremiah 14:6; Zechariah 10:1; עִשְּׂבוֺת הָרִים Proverbs 27:25 (|| דֶּשֶׁא, חָצִיר); but as human food (hence excluding דֶּשֶׁא) הַשָּׂדֶה ע׳ Genesis 3:18 (J); especially P Genesis 1:29 (+ עֶץ), יֶרֶק ע׳ Genesis 1:30; Genesis 9:3, hence ע׳ Psalm 104:14 (|| חָצִיר for cattle); ע׳ distinguished from דֶּשֶׁא, עֵץ also Genesis 1:11, 12, שָׂדֶה ע׳ + דֶּשֶׁא, חָצִיר 2 Kings 19:26 + Isaiah 37:27.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H6211.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:11; 1:11; 1:12; 1:29; 1:30; 2:5; 2:5; 3:18; 9:3

Exodus

9:22; 9:25; 10:12; 10:15; 10:15

Deuteronomy

11:15; 11:15; 29:22; 32:2

2 Kings

19:26

Job

5:25

Psalms

72:16; 92:8; 102:5; 102:12; 104:14; 105:35; 106:20

Proverbs

19:12; 27:25; 27:25

Isaiah

37:27; 42:15; 42:15

Jeremiah

12:14; 14:6

Amos

7:2

Micah

5:6

Zechariah

10:1

H6212

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6212 matches the Hebrew עֵשֶׂב (ʿēśeḇ),
which occurs 33 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:18 - Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:25 - And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15 - And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 - May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 - My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 - He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:35 - And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:20 - And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12 - The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 - The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15 - I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6 - And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2 - And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:7 - And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:1 - Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.
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