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Grass
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The source enumerates 2 distinct subjects under Grass. Jump to one below, or read in order.
Grass (1)
#Heb. hatsir, ripe grass fit for mowing (1 Kings 18:5; Job 40:15; Ps. 104:14). As the herbage rapidly fades under the scorching sun, it is used as an image of the brevity of human life (Isa. 40:6, 7; Ps. 90:5). In Num. 11:5 this word is rendered “leeks.”
Grass (2)
#Heb. deshe’, green grass (Gen. 1:11, 12; Isa. 66:14; Deut. 32:2). “The sickly and forced blades of grass which spring up on the flat plastered roofs of houses in the East are used as an emblem of speedy destruction, because they are small and weak, and because, under the scorching rays of the sun, they soon wither away” (2 Kings 19:26; Ps. 129:6; Isa. 37:27).
The dry stalks of grass were often used as fuel for the oven (Matt. 6:30; 13:30; Luke 12:28).
In the Bible
62
Verses where Grass is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Kings 18:5
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 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- 2 Kings 19:26
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 Samuel 23:4
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.’
- Amos 7:2
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?”
- Daniel 4:15
But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.
+56 more verses naming Grass.
Scripture on Grass
52
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- 2 Kings 19Job 40Psalms 72Psalms 90Psalms 102Psalms 104Psalms 129Isaiah 37Isaiah 66Jeremiah 14Matthew 6Luke 12James 1Numbers 11Numbers 22Deuteronomy 11Deuteronomy 292 Samuel 23Job 5Job 6Job 8Job 38Psalms 37Psalms 92Psalms 103Psalms 106Psalms 147Proverbs 19Proverbs 27Song of Solomon 1Isaiah 5Isaiah 15Isaiah 35Isaiah 44Isaiah 51Jeremiah 12Jeremiah 50Daniel 5Amos 7Micah 5Zechariah 10Matthew 14Mark 6John 61 Peter 1Revelation 8Revelation 9
Entries that reference Grass
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Voices on Grass
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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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