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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2682

חָצִיר

chatsirkhaw-tseer'

grass; leek

21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: châtsîyr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2682is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2682

grass; also a leek (collectively)

The King James renders it: grass, hay, herb, leek.

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

chatsir is rendered "grass; leek". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "grass".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 11:5We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Numbers 11:5הֶחָצִ֥יר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's twenty-one uses are in Isaiah.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: grass, and leek.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
grassStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereNumbers 11:5We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions…
leekStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • grass12
  • like the grass3
  • grass of2
  • herbage2
  • like grass of1
  • the leek1

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.

חָצִירchatsirabodeUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 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

  • חָצִ֖יר3
  • חֲצִ֣יר2
  • חָצִיר֙2
  • הֶחָצִ֥יר1
  • חָצִ֗יר1
  • חָצִ֣יר1
  • חָ֝צִ֗יר1
  • חָ֭צִיר1
  • חָצִ֔יר1
  • חָצִ֑יר1
  • חָצִ֥יר1
  • חָצִ֨יר׀1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular14HNcmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HRd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa

Numbers

one use
  • We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

    Numbers 11:5

    • הֶחָצִ֥ירhechatzirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the leek

1 Kings

one use
  • Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

    1 Kings 18:5

    • חָצִ֗ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass

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.

    2 Kings 19:26

    • חֲצִ֣ירchatzirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: grass of

Job

two uses
  • While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

    Job 8:12

    • חָצִ֣ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: herbage
  • Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox.

    Job 40:15

    • חָ֝צִ֗ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass

Psalms

six uses
  • For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

    Psalms 37:2

    • כֶ֭חָצִירkhechatzirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the grass
  • You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

    Psalms 90:5

    • כֶּחָצִ֥ירkechatzirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the grass
  • As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

    Psalms 103:15

    • כֶּחָצִ֣ירkechatzirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the grass
  • He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

    Psalms 104:14

    • חָצִ֨יר׀chatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
  • May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

    Psalms 129:6

    • כַּחֲצִ֣ירkachatzirpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like grass of
  • who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.

    Psalms 147:8

    • חָצִֽיר׃chatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass

Proverbs

one use
  • When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered,

    Proverbs 27:25

    • חָ֭צִירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass

Isaiah

nine uses
  • The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

    Isaiah 15:6

    • חָצִיר֙chatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
  • The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

    Isaiah 35:7

    • חָצִ֖ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: herbage
  • 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.

    Isaiah 37:27

    • חֲצִ֣ירchatzirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: grass of
  • A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

    Isaiah 40:6

    • חָצִ֔ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
  • The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

    Isaiah 40:7

    • חָצִיר֙chatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
    • חָצִ֖ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
  • The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

    Isaiah 40:8

    • חָצִ֖ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
  • They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

    Isaiah 44:4

    • חָצִ֑ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
  • “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

    Isaiah 51:12

    • חָצִ֥ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

Revised 2026-09-05. Every cited work, the sources registry →