עֵשֶׂב esev

Hebrew word for “vegetation” · Strong’s H6212 · used 33 times in 32 verses

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Meaning

herb, herbage, grass, green plants; Aramaic equivalent: a.sav (עֲשַׂב "grass" H6211B)

How it is translated

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

• vegetation 21
• plants 4
• grass 2
• like vegetation 2
• plant 1
• will be like the vegetation 1
• like the vegetation 1
• vegetations 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 1 (4), Exodus 9 (2), Exodus 10 (2), Psalms 102 (2), Genesis 2 (1), Genesis 3 (1), Genesis 9 (1), Deuteronomy 11 (1), Deuteronomy 29 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1)

Forms

• עשׂב 24
• כעשׂב 4
• ועשׂב 2
• ובעשׂב 1
• עשׂבות 1
• עשׂבם 1

Words used with it

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

• דֶּשֶׁא deshe “grass” 6
• שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 10
• פְּרִי peri “fruit” 6
• חָצִיר chatsir “grass” 4
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 8
• בָּרָד barad “hail” 4
• צָמַח tsamach “to spring” 4
• יֶרֶק yereq “green” 3
• בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 5
• יָבֵשׁ yavesh “to wither” 4
• זָרַע zara “to sow” 4
• עֵץ ets “tree” 5

Key verses

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

• Genesis 1:29 — And 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…
• Deuteronomy 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of…
• 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:
• Psalms 72:16 — There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish…
• Psalms 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Psalms 104:14 — He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
• Proverbs 19:12 — The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
• Isaiah 42:15 — I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
• Jeremiah 12:4 — How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds;…
• Amos 7:2 — And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob…
• Micah 5:7 — And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for…
• Zechariah 10:1 — 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.

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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.