Herb

"(1.) Heb. `eseb, any green plant; herbage (Gen. 1:11, 12, 29," "30; 2:5; 3:18, etc.); comprehending vegetables and all green" "herbage (Amos 7:1, 2)." "(2.) Yarak, green; any green thing; foliage of trees (2 Kings 19:26; Ps. 37:2); a plant; herb (Deut. 11:10). "(3.) Or, meaning "light" In Isa. 26:19 it means "green herbs;" in 2 Kings 4:39 probably the fruit of some plant. "(4.) Merorim, plural, "bitter herbs," eaten by the Israelites at the Passover (Ex. 12:8; Num. 9:11). They were bitter plants of "various sorts, and referred symbolically to the oppression in" Egypt.