STRONGS NUMBER H6212


Word Summary
eseb: herb, herbage
Original Word: עֶשֶׂב
Transliteration: eseb
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'seb)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: herb, herbage
Meaning: herb, herbage
Strong's Concordance
grass, herb

From an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green); grass (or any tender shoot) -- grass, herb.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6212. eseb

עֵ֫שֶׂבnoun masculineGenesis 1:11 herb, herbage; — ׳ע‎ absolute Deuteronomy 11:15 +; construct Genesis 2:5 +; suffix עֶשְׂבָּםIsaiah 42:15; plural construct עִשְּׂבוֺת‎ (dagesh forte dirimens) Proverbs 27:25; — herb, herbage, in oldest use often General (therefore including grass [דֶּשֶׁא‎]): ׳ע הַשָּׂדֶהExodus 9:22 (E), Genesis 2:5 (+ שִׂיחַ‎) Exodus 9:25 (+ עֵץ‎), 10:15 (+ id; all J) Amos 7:2, so ׳ע הָאָרֶץExodus 10:12 (E), + הָעֵץ מְּרִי10:15 (J), whence Psalm 105:35; apparently Generally also in ׳ע הארץJob 5:25; Psalm 72:16, ׳ע‎ alone 92:8; ׳ע כָּלהַֿשָּׂדֶהJeremiah 12:14, ׳ע‎ alone Deuteronomy 32:2 ("" דֶּשֶׁא‎), Isaiah 42:15; Psalm 102:5; 102:12, and Deuteronomy 29:22; Micah 5:6; Proverbs 19:12; hence ׳ע‎ as food for cattle Deuteronomy 11:15; Psalm 106:20 compare Jeremiah 14:6; Zechariah 10:1; הָרִים עִשְּׂבוֺתProverbs 27:25 ("" חָצִיר דֶּשֶׁא,‎); but as human food (hence excluding דֶּשֶׁא‎) ׳ע הַשָּׂדֶהGenesis 3:18 (J); especially P 1:29 (+ עֶץ‎), ע ׳יֶרֶק1:30; 9:3, hence ׳עPsalm 104:14 ("" חָצִיר‎ for cattle); ׳ע‎ distinguished from עֵץ דֶּשֶׁא,‎ also Genesis 1:11-12, ׳ע שָׂדֶה‎ + חָצִיר דֶּשֶׁא,2 Kings 19:26 + Isaiah 37:27.