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Lexicon :: Strong's H6212 - ʿēśeḇ

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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)
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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

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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 Box Gen 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb H6212 yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb H6212 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb H6212 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And 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 H6212 for meat: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb H6212 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:18 - Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb H6212 of the field;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb H6212 have I given you all things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb H6212 of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:25 - And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb H6212 of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb H6212 of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb H6212 of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs H6212 of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15 - And I will send grass H6212 in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass H6212 groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 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: H6212

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass H6212 of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass H6212 of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 like grass H6212 of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - When the wicked spring as the grass, H6212 and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 - My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; H6212 so that I forget to eat my bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. H6212

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb H6212 for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:35 - And did eat up all the herbs H6212 in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:20 - Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. H6212

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12 - The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. H6212

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 - The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs H6212 of the mountains are gathered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass H6212 of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15 - I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; H6212 and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs H6212 of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6 - And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. H6212

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2 - And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass H6212 of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 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, H6212 that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 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 H6212 in the field.
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