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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

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

The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

עֶשֶׂרesertenUses176
עֶשֶׁתeshethplateUses1

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.

    Genesis 1:11

    • 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.

    Genesis 1:12

    • 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.

    Genesis 1:29

    • 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.

    Genesis 1:30

    • 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.

    Genesis 2:5

    • 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.

    Genesis 3:18

    • 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.

    Genesis 9:3

    • 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.”

    Exodus 9:22

    • 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.

    Exodus 9:25

    • 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.”

    Exodus 10:12

    • 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.

    Exodus 10:15

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 11:15

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 29:23

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 32:2

    • 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.

    2 Kings 19:26

    • 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.

    Job 5:25

    • 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.

    Psalms 72:16

    • 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.

    Psalms 92:7

    • עֵ֗שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
  • My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

    Psalms 102:4

    • כָ֭עֵשֶׂבkhaesevpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the vegetation
  • My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

    Psalms 102:11

    • 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:

    Psalms 104:14

    • וְ֭עֵשֶׂבveesevconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and vegetation
  • They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.

    Psalms 105:35

    • עֵ֣שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation
  • They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

    Psalms 106:20

    • 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.

    Proverbs 19:12

    • עֵ֣שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: grass
  • When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered,

    Proverbs 27:25

    • 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.

    Isaiah 37:27

    • 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.

    Isaiah 42:15

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 12:4

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 14:6

    • 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?”

    Amos 7:2

    • 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.

    Micah 5:7

    • 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.

    Zechariah 10:1

    • עֵ֥שֶׂבʾesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: vegetation

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).

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