Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1877
דֶּשֶׁא
deshedeh'-sheh
grass
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: desheʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1877is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1877
a sprout; by analogy, grass
The King James renders it: (tender) grass, green, (tender) herb.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
deshe is rendered "grass". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:11Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:11דֶּ֔שֶׁא
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- vegetation7
- grass6
- like the grass1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דֶּשֶׁן | deshen | ashes | Uses15 |
The words it stands beside
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דֶּ֔שֶׁא3
- דֶ֔שֶׁא2
- דֶ֑שֶׁא2
- דֶּ֠שֶׁא1
- דֶּ֭שֶׁא1
- דֶּ֝֗שֶׁא1
- דֶּ֥שֶׁא1
- דֶֽשֶׁא׃1
- דֶּֽשֶׁא׃1
- כַּדֶּ֣שֶׁא1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular13HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Genesis
two uses
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
- דֶּ֔שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
- דֶּ֠שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
Deuteronomy
one use
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
- דֶ֔שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: grass
2 Samuel
one use
is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- דֶּ֥שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
2 Kings
one use
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
- דֶּ֔שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: grass
Job
two uses
Psalms
two uses
He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
- דֶּ֭שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: grass
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- דֶּ֝֗שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
Proverbs
one use
When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered,
- דֶ֑שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: grass
Isaiah
three uses
The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
- דֶ֔שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
- דֶּ֔שֶׁאdeshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
- כַּדֶּ֣שֶׁאkadeshe'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the grass
Jeremiah
one use
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
- דֶּֽשֶׁא׃deshe'noun · masculine singulartagged: grass
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.