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Herb

(1. ) Heb. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H6212
Hebrew
עֵ֫שֶׂב

Strong’s and original-language information

H6212

עֵ֫שֶׂב

Glosses: herb, herbage

Indexed occurrences: 32

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Herb

(1.) Heb. eseb, any green plant; herbage (Gen. 1:11, 12, 29, 30; 2:5; 3:18, etc.); comprehending vegetables and all green herbage (Amos 7:1, 2). (2.) Yarak, green; any green thing; foliage of trees (2 Kings 19:26; Ps. 37:2); a plant; herb (Deut. 11:10). (3.) Or, meaning "light" In Isa. 26:19 it means "green herbs;" in 2 Kings 4:39 probably the fruit of some plant. (4.) Merorim, plural, "bitter herbs," eaten by the Israelites at the Passover (Ex. 12:8; Num. 9:11). They were bitter plants of various sorts, and referred symbolically to the oppression in Egypt.

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references39 references

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Sources

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