דֶּשֶׁאdesheʼ

grass (Isaiah 15:6; Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:12; 2 Samuel 23:4; Proverbs 21:25)

Pronunciation: deh'-sheh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1877

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 1:12 The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
  • Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my teaching fall on you like rain; let my speech settle like dew. Let my words fall like rain on tender grass, like gentle showers on young plants.
  • 2 Samuel 23:4 is like the light of morning at sunrise, like a morning without clouds, like the gleaming of the sun on new grass after rain.’
  • 2 Kings 19:26 That is why their people have so little power and are so frightened and confused. They are as weak as grass, as easily trampled as tender green shoots. They are like grass sprouting on a housetop, scorched before it can grow lush and tall.
  • Job 6:5 Don’t I have a right to complain? Don’t wild donkeys bray when they find no grass, and oxen bellow when they have no food?
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).