Grass
Bible Usage:
- grass used 62 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 1:11
- Last Reference: Revelation 9:4
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1488 Used 1 time
- H1877 Used 8 times
- H1883 Used 2 times
- H2682 Used 17 times
- H3418 Used 1 time
- H6211 Used 5 times
- H6212 Used 16 times
- G5528 Used 12 times
1. Heb. hatsir, ripe grass fit for mowing (1 Kings 18:5; Job 40:15; Psalms 104:14). As the herbage rapidly fades under the scorching sun, it is used as an image of the brevity of human life (Isaiah 40:6, 7; Psalms 90:5). In Numbers 11:5 this word is rendered "leeks."
2. Heb. deshe', green grass (Genesis 1:11, 12; Isaiah 66:14; Deuteronomy 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; Psalms 129:6; Isaiah 37:27).
The dry stalks of grass were often used as fuel for the oven (Matthew 6:30; 13:30; Luke 12:28).
Created on the third creative day
Genesis 1:11
Mown
Psalms 72:6
God's care of
Matthew 6:30; Luke 12:28
On roofs of houses
Psalms 129:6
Figurative
Psalms 90:5-6; Isaiah 40:6; 1 Peter 1:24; James 1:10-11
GR'ASS, noun
1. In common usage, herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts.
2. In botany, a plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, a husky calyx, called glume, and the seed single. This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are commonly called by the name of grass The grasses form a numerous family of plants.
Grass of Parnassus, a plant, the Parnassia.
GR'ASS, verb transitive To cover with grass or with turf.
GR'ASS, verb intransitive To breed grass; to be covered with grass
GRASSA'TION, noun [Latin grassatio.] A wandering about. [Little used.]
GR'ASS-GREEN, adjective Green with grass.
1. Dark green, like the color of grass.
GR'ASS-GROWN, adjective Overgrown with grass.
Belongs to the class of neuropterous insects called Gryllidae. This insect is not unknown in Palestine.
In Judges 6:5; 7:12; Job 39:30; Jeremiah 46:23, where the Authorized Version has "grasshopper," the Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word (arbeh) by "locust." This is the case also in Amos 7:1; Nahum 3:17, where the Hebrew word gob is used; and in Leviticus 11:22; Numbers 13:33; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Isaiah 40:22, where hagab is used. In all these instances the proper rendering is probably "locust" (q.v.).
General references
Numbers 13:33; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Isaiah 40:22; Nahum 3:17
Locust
[LOCUST]
GR'ASSHOPPER, noun [grass and hop.] An animal that lives among grass, a species of Gryllus.
GR'ASSINESS, noun [from grassy.] The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
GR'ASSLESS, adjective Destitute of grass.
GR'ASSPLOT, noun A plat or level spot covered with grass.
GR'ASSPOLY, noun A plant, a species of Lythrum or willow-wort.
GR'ASSVETCH, noun A plant of the genus Lathyrus.
GR'ASSWRACK, noun A plant, the Zostera.
GR'ASSY, adjective Covered with grass; abounding with grass.
1. Resembling grass; green.