chatsir · grass; leek

What it means

chatsir (חָצִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grass; leek”.

Green grass, pasture. In Numbers 11:5, leeks.

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. Grass that soon withers.
2. A garden vegetable that is eaten, of the onion family.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• grass ×20
• leeks ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×9

• Numbers 11:5

  We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

• 1 Kings 18:5

  Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we will find grass and keep alive horse and mule, and not have to cut off some of the animals.”

• 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 8:12

  While it is still in its greenness, not cut down, it dries up before any grass.

• Job 40:15

  Look, please, at Behemoth, which I made with you; grass like the ox it eats.

• Psalms 37:2

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

• Psalms 90:5

  You sweep them away; they are a sleep; in the morning they are like grass that is renewed;

• Psalms 103:15

  A mortal, like grass are his days; like a flower of the field, so he flourishes;

• 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 129:6

  May they be like grass on the rooftops, which before it is pulled up withers,

• Psalms 147:8

  who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes sprout grass on the mountains,

• 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 35:7

  And the burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the abode of jackals, its lair, grass will become reed and papyrus.

• 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 40:6

  A voice says, “Call out.” And he said, “What shall I call out?” “All flesh is grass, and all its loyal love is like the flower of the field.

• Isaiah 40:7

  The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of YHWH blows on it; surely the people is grass.

• Isaiah 40:8

  The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our Elohim will stand forever.”

• Isaiah 44:4

  And they will spring up among the grass, like willows by streams of water.

• Isaiah 51:12

  “I, I am the same, he who comforts you. Who are you, that you fear a mortal who will die, and the son of man who is made as grass?

And 1 more times.