עֶשֶׂב
ʻeseb · eh'seb
grass (or any tender shoot)
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green);
grass (or any tender shoot)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: grass, herb.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to consume, to destroy › the house, what is within
To see and know that works to consume, to destroy of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֶשֶׂב 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
33 occurrences · 33 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- every herb3 · 9%
- grass3 · 9%
- upon the grass3 · 9%
- like grass3 · 9%
- the herb2 · 6%
- and herb2 · 6%
- herb2 · 6%
- they were as the grass2 · 6%
- as the grass2 · 6%
- you every herb1 · 3%
- and every herb1 · 3%
- and upon every herb1 · 3%
- or in the herbs1 · 3%
- nor any grass1 · 3%
- all the herbs1 · 3%
- itself, and herbs1 · 3%
- all their herbs1 · 3%
- and the herbs1 · 3%
- because there was no grass1 · 3%
- the grass1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.