deshe · vegetation

What it means

deshe (דֶּשֶׁא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vegetation”.

Tender vegetation that sprouts: new grass, green growth.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The greenery that sprouts after rain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• grass ×8
• vegetation ×4
• new growth ×1
• pasture ×1
• threshing ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2

• Genesis 1:11

  And Elohim said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to its kind, that has its seed in it, on the earth.” And it was so.

• Genesis 1:12

  And the earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed according to its kind, and trees bearing fruit that has its seed in it, according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

• Deuteronomy 32:2

  Let my teaching drip like the rain, let my saying distill like the dew, like showers on the vegetation and like downpours on the grass.

• 2 Samuel 23:4

  is like the light of morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds; from the brightness, from the rain, springs vegetation from the earth.’

• 2 Kings 19:26

  Their inhabitants, lacking strength, were terrified and put to shame; they were grass of the field and green of new grass, grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up.

• Job 6:5

  Does the wild donkey bray over grass? Or does the ox low over its fodder?

• Job 38:27

  to satisfy the desolation and ruin, and to make sprout the shoots of grass?

• Psalms 23:2

  In pastures of grass he makes me lie down; beside waters of rest he leads me.

• Psalms 37:2

  For like the grass quickly they will be cut down, and like the green of the pasture they will wither.

• Proverbs 27:25

  The grass is uncovered, and the new growth appears, and the plants of the mountains are gathered in;

• Isaiah 15:6

  For the waters of Nimrim will be desolations; for the grass has dried up, the tender grass is finished; green growth there is none.

• Isaiah 37:27

  Their inhabitants, lacking strength, were terrified and put to shame; they were grass of the field and green of new grass, grass on the roofs, and a sown field before it grows up.

• Isaiah 66:14

  And you will see, and your heart will rejoice, and your bones will flourish like tender grass; and the hand of YHWH will be known with his servants, and his indignation with his enemies.

• Jeremiah 14:5

  For even the doe in the field gives birth and abandons it, for there is no fresh grass.

• Jeremiah 50:11

  Because you rejoice, because you exult, plunderers of my inheritance, because you frisk like a heifer threshing, and neigh like stallions,