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 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
- 2meanings
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
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: grass, and leek.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| grassStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereNumbers 11:5We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions… |
| leekStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָצִיר | chatsir | abode | Uses1 |
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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- חֲצִ֣ירchatzirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: grass of
Job
two uses
Psalms
six uses
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- 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—
- 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;
- 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:
- חָצִ֨יר׀chatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
- 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.
- חָצִֽיר׃chatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
Proverbs
one use
When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- חָצִיר֙chatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
- חָצִ֖ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- חָצִ֖ירchatzirnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
- 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?
- חָצִ֥ירchatzirnoun · 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.
