דֶּשֶׁא deshe

Hebrew word for “grass” · Strong’s H1877 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

grass, new grass, green herb, vegetation, young; Aramaic equivalent: de.te (דֶּ֫תֶא "grass" H1883)

How it is translated

Glosses given for deshe in context, with how often each is used:

• vegetation 7
• grass 6
• like grass 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 1 (2), Deuteronomy 32 (1), 2 Samuel 23 (1), 2 Kings 19 (1), Job 6 (1), Job 38 (1), Psalms 23 (1), Psalms 37 (1), Proverbs 27 (1), Isaiah 15 (1)

Forms

• דשׁא 13
• כדשׁא 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with deshe more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עֵשֶׂב esev “vegetation” 6
• חָצִיר chatsir “grass” 5
• קָצֵר qatser “short” 2
• יָרָק yaraq “herb” 2
• יֶרֶק yereq “green” 2
• קָמָה qamah “standing grain” 2
• מִין min “kind” 2
• גָּג gag “roof” 2
• שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 3
• מָטַר matar “rain” 2
• חָתַת chatat “to to be dismayed” 2
• זָרַע zara “to sow” 2

Key verses

The verses using deshe that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 1:11 — And 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…
• Genesis 1:12 — And 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…
• Deuteronomy 32:2 — My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
• 2 Samuel 23:4 — And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear…
• 2 Kings 19:26 — Therefore 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…
• Job 6:5 — Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
• Psalms 23:2 — He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
• Psalms 37:2 — For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
• Isaiah 15:6 — For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
• Isaiah 37:27 — Therefore 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…
• Isaiah 66:14 — And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and…
• Jeremiah 14:5 — Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.