דֶּשֶׁא
desheʼ · deh'-sheh
a sprout; by analogy, grass
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1876 (דָּשָׁא);
a sprout; by analogy, grass
- a sprout
- by analogy, grass
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (tender) grass, green, (tender) herb.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to consume, to destroy › strength, the leader
The doorway, the way in that works to consume, to destroy of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דֶּשֶׁא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- herb3 · 20%
- grass2 · 13%
- upon the tender herb1 · 7%
- as the tender grass1 · 7%
- when he hath grass1 · 7%
- of the tender herb1 · 7%
- in green1 · 7%
- and the tender grass1 · 7%
- the grass1 · 7%
- like an herb1 · 7%
- it, because there was no grass1 · 7%
- at grass1 · 7%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.