דֶּשֶׁאdesheʼ/deh'-sheh/
HebrewH187715 occurrences (KJV)
a sprout; by analogy, grass
KJV renders it: (tender) grass, green, (tender) herb.
Where it appears
- Gen 1:11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.
- Gen 1:12The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
- Deut 32:2My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
- 2 Sam 23:4shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
- 2 Kgs 19:26Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
- Job 6:5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
- Job 38:27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
- Ps 23:2He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
- Ps 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
- Prov 27:25The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
- Isa 15:6For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
- Isa 37:27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
- Isa 66:14You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.
- Jer 14:5Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.
- Jer 50:11“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.