Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6212
עֶשֶׂב
esebeh'seb
vegetation
33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻeseb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6212is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6212
grass (or any tender shoot)
The King James renders it: grass, 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
eseb is rendered "vegetation". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Genesis, 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 eighteen 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 1:11עֵ֚שֶׂב
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
- vegetation8
- vegetation of8
- plant5
- grass2
- like the vegetation2
- like vegetation of2
- and on vegetation of1
- and vegetation1
- and vegetation of1
- the vegetation of1
- vegetation their1
- vegetations of1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 33, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 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
- עֵ֣שֶׂב6
- עֵ֥שֶׂב5
- עֵ֤שֶׂב3
- עֵֽשֶׂב׃3
- כְּעֵ֣שֶׂב2
- עֵ֑שֶׂב2
- וּבְעֵ֥שֶׂב1
- וְ֭עֵשֶׂב1
- וְעֵ֥שֶׂב1
- כָ֭עֵשֶׂב1
- כָּעֵ֥שֶׂב1
- עֵ֚שֶׂב1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular15HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
Genesis
seven 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.
- עֵ֚שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: plant
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.
- עֵ֣שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: plant
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
- עֵ֣שֶׂב׀ʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: plant
And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
- עֵ֖שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: plant
Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
- עֵ֥שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the vegetation of
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- עֵ֥שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetation of
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
- עֵ֔שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: plant
Exodus
five uses
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”
- עֵ֥שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetation of
Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.
- עֵ֤שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetation of
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”
- עֵ֣שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetation of
They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
- עֵ֣שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetation of
- וּבְעֵ֥שֶׂבuveesevconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and on vegetation of
Deuteronomy
three uses
And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
- עֵ֥שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- עֵ֑שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
- עֵֽשֶׂב׃ʾesevnoun · 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.
- עֵ֤שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetation of
Job
one use
You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
- כְּעֵ֣שֶׂבkeesevpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like vegetation of
Psalms
seven uses
May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.
- כְּעֵ֣שֶׂבkeesevpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like vegetation of
that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- עֵ֗שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
- כָ֭עֵשֶׂבkhaesevpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the vegetation
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- כָּעֵ֥שֶׂבkaesevpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the vegetation
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
- וְ֭עֵשֶׂבveesevconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and vegetation
They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
- עֵ֣שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
- עֵֽשֶׂב׃ʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
Proverbs
two uses
A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- עֵ֣שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered,
- עִשְּׂב֥וֹתisevotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetations of
Isaiah
two uses
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.
- עֵ֤שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetation of
I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
- עֶשְׂבָּ֖םʾesbamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: vegetation their
Jeremiah
two uses
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- וְעֵ֥שֶׂבveesevconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and vegetation of
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
- עֵֽשֶׂב׃ʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
Amos
one use
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
- עֵ֣שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vegetation of
Micah
one use
Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
- עֵ֑שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
Zechariah
one use
Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
- עֵ֥שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
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.
