Strong's Hebrew · H1877

דֶּשֶׁא

desheʼ · deh'-sheh

(tender) grass, green, (tender) herb.

Definition

a sprout; by analogy, grass

Derivation

from H1876 (דָּשָׁא);

Appears 14 times in Scripture

2 Kings 19:26

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

Psalms 37:2

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

Psalms 23:2

He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.

2 Samuel 23:4

is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

Job 6:5

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?

Genesis 1:11

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:12

The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Isaiah 66:14

When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

Job 38:27

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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