esev · plants, vegetation

What it means

esev (עֶשֶׂב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plants, vegetation”.

Small plants, herbs and crops that serve as food for people and animals.

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 greens that people and animals eat.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• grass ×16
• plant ×8
• plants ×7
• vegetation ×2

Where it appears

• Genesis×7
• Exodus×5
• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1

• 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.

• Genesis 1:29

  And Elohim said, “Look, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; it will be food for you.

• Genesis 1:30

  And to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that creeps on the earth, that has life, I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

• Genesis 2:5

  Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for YHWH Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no human being to work the ground;

• Genesis 3:18

  And thorns and thistles it will make sprout for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

• Genesis 9:3

  Every creeping thing that is alive will be food for you; as the green plants, I give you everything.

• Exodus 9:22

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 9:25

  The hail struck, throughout all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field, from people to animals; and the hail struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.

• Exodus 10:12

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, all that the hail has left.”

• Exodus 10:15

  They covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and nothing green remained, neither on the trees nor in the plants of the field, in all the land of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 11:15

  I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

• Deuteronomy 29:23

  —all its land brimstone and salt, a burning; it will not be sown, and it will not sprout, and no plant will come up in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger and in his wrath—

• 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 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 5:25

  You will know that your offspring will be many, and your offshoots like the grass of the earth.

• Psalms 72:16

  May there be abundance of grain in the land, on the top of the mountains; may its fruit wave like Lebanon; and may those of the city flourish like the grass of the earth.

• Psalms 92:7

  when the wicked flourish like grass, and all the workers of wickedness bloom, it is so that they may be destroyed forever.

• Psalms 102:4

  Struck down like grass and withered is my heart, for I forget to eat my bread.

• Psalms 102:11

  My days are like a shadow stretched out, and I like grass wither.

• Psalms 104:14

  He makes grass grow for the livestock, and plants for the labor of man, to bring forth bread from the earth,

• Psalms 105:35

  and they ate all the vegetation in their land, and ate the fruit of their ground.

• Psalms 106:20

  And they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

• Proverbs 19:12

  Like the roar of a young lion is the rage of a king, but like dew on the grass is his favor.

• Proverbs 27:25

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

• 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 42:15

  I will lay waste mountains and hills, and all their vegetation I will dry up; and I will turn rivers into coastlands, and the pools I will dry up.

• Jeremiah 12:4

  How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of those who dwell in it the animals and the birds are swept away, for they say: “He will not see our end.”

• Jeremiah 14:6

  And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, for there is no grass.

• Amos 7:2

  And it happened, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said, “Adonai YHWH, forgive, please! How will Jacob stand? For he is small.”

• Micah 5:7

  And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from YHWH, like showers on the grass, which does not wait for man nor hope for human beings.

• Zechariah 10:1

  Ask of YHWH rain in the time of the late rain; YHWH makes the lightning flashes, and rain in downpours he will give them, to each grass in the field.

And 1 more times.