Words the Bible translates as grass
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- chortosχόρτοςgrass: the low green plants that carpet open ground, including the young blade of a grain crop and, once cut and dried, hay
- esevעֵשֶׂבthe green, seed-bearing plants of the ground: herbs, low growth, and field crops, as opposed to trees
- ḥatsirחָצִירgrass: the green herbage of the field, the fodder that springs up and quickly dries away
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- leek: the edible green onion-like plant remembered from Egypt
- desheדֶּשֶׁאthe first tender flush of fresh green growth that springs from the ground after rain.
- ashעָשׁgrass: the green growth of an open field, what grazing animals feed on
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- a moth: the small insect whose grub eats holes through stored cloth
- yereqיֶרֶקgreen growth: everything on the land that is alive and green, taken together as one class
- deteדֶּתֶאgrassnot studied yet
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