1. grass, herbage, green vegetation — Green plant growth, grass, or herbage, typically used as an image of transience and frailty of human life (Isa 40:6-8 'all flesh is grass,' Ps 103:15, 2 Kgs 19:26). Consistently rendered: Spanish 'hierba,' Arabic عشب (ushb), Korean 풀 (pul), Hindi घास (ghas), Swahili 'majani/nyasi.' All three clusters represent the same botanical referent — bare noun 'grass,' comparative 'like grass,' and construct 'grass of' — with no semantic differentiation, only grammatical variation in definiteness and prepositional framing. 19×
AR["العُشْبُ","العُشْبِ","الْعُشْبُ","حَشِيشَ","عُشبًا","عُشْبًا","عُشْبٌ","عُشْبٍ","كَ-العُشب","كَ-العُشْبِ","كَعُشْبٍ","كَـ-عُشْبٍ","كَـ-عُشْبِ"]·ben["ঘাস","ঘাসের","ঘাসের-মতো","যেমন-ঘাস"]·DE["Gras","[חציר]","grass","grass-von","wie-Gras","wie-grass-of"]·EN["grass","grass-of","is-grass","like-grass","like-grass-of","the-grass"]·FR["comme-herbe","grass","grass-de","herbe","חציר"]·heb["חציר","כ-חציר"]·HI["घास","घास-की-तरह","घास-के","घास-से","जैसे-घास"]·ID["dengan-rumput","rumput","rumput-kering","seperti-rumput"]·IT["erba","erba-di","grass","il-grass"]·jav["ingkang-kados-suket","kados-suket","rumput","suket"]·KO["-풀-같이","풀","풀-같이","풀-을","풀-처럼","풀로-","풀보다","풀은","풀을","풀이","풀이라","풀이요"]·PT["capim","como-a-erva","como-a-erva-de","como-erva","erva","erva-de","feno","relva"]·RU["как-трава","трава","травой","траву","травы"]·ES["como-hierba","como-hierba-de","es-hierba","habrá-hierba","heno","hierba","hierba-de","la-hierba"]·SW["kama-majani","kama-nyasi","majani","nyasi","siku-zake"]·TR["ot","ot-","ot-gibi","otu","otun"]·urd["جیسے-گھاس","گھاس","گھاس-سے","گھاس-کی-طرح","گھاس-ہیں","گھاس-ہے"]
1 Kgs 18:5, 2 Kgs 19:26, Job 8:12, Job 40:15, Ps 37:2, Ps 90:5, Ps 103:15, Ps 104:14, Ps 129:6, Ps 147:8, Prov 27:25, Isa 35:7 (+7 more)
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. חָצִיר n.m. Is 15:6 green grass, herbage, abs. חָצִיר Nu 11:5 + 16 times; cstr. חֲצִיר Is 37:27 = 2 K 19:26, ψ 129:6;— 1. grass, as food for animals 1 K 18:5; Jb 40:15 ψ 104:14; 147:8; Pr 27:25 (‖ דֶּשֶׁא and עֵשֶׂב), Is 15:6 (‖ דֶּשֶׁא and יֶרֶק); spec. of leeks (as still sometimes in Aramaic, v. Löwpp. 226, 228) Nu 11:5 (v. Di); in sim. of abundant growth Is 44:4 (v. 𝔊 Ew Che); on Is…