Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
vegetation
Usage: herb, herbage, grass, green plants Aramaic equivalent: a.sav (עֲשַׂב "grass" H6211B)
Eseb means “grass” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6212 עֶשֶׂב (`eseb) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `eseb (eh'seb) n-m. 1. grass (or any tender shoot) [from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green)] It has 32 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include grass, herb, herbs, and any. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`eseb (eh'seb) n-m. 1. grass (or any tender shoot) [from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green)] KJV: grass, herb.
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vegetation
Usage: herb, herbage, grass, green plants Aramaic equivalent: a.sav (עֲשַׂב "grass" H6211B)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `eseb, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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32 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 earth: and it was so.
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 that it was good.
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 yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6212.
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 earth: and it was so.
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 that it was good.
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 yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
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 for meat: and it was so.
And 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.
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
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 of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
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 of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
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 of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb 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 of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
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 Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
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:
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 the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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 of the earth.
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:
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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;
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
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 the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
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.
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; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
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.
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 arise? for he is small.
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 the sons of men.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6212, grouped by book.
Eseb (Strong's H6212) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "grass". `eseb (eh'seb) n-m. 1. grass (or any tender shoot) [from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green)]
This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's H6212 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6212 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as grass, herb, herbs, and any. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.