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# דֶּשֶׁא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1877

**grass** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

grass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1877/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֶּ֫שֶׁא: n.m. grass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1877/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 15:6 grass (NH id., Assyrian dišu, herb, Lyon Sargontexte 69; Sab. דתֿא fresh shoots DHMZMG 1875, 597 = springtime CISiv. p. 11; Aramaic דִּתְאָה, ܬܰܕܐܴܐ (cf. LagBN 130))—ד׳ abs. Gn 1:11 + 13 times—acc. cogn. תַּדְשֵׁא Gn 1:11; cf. v 12 (in both, produced by earth); springing out of earth 2 S 23:4; of a second crop of grass Pr 27:25 (opp. חָצִיר); caused to spring forth by God לְהַצְמִיחַ מֹצָא דֶ֑שֶׁא Jb 38:27; refreshed by rain Dt 32:2; נְאוֹת ד׳ ψ 23:2; as food of wild ass Jb 6:5; as failing (withered) Is 15:6; lacking for animals Je 14:5; וִירַק דֶּשֶׁא sim. of weakness 2 K 19:26 (‖ עֵשֶׂב שָׂדֶה) = Is 37:27; of transitoriness (withering) ψ 37:2 (יֶרֶק ד׳), of growth and prosperity, Is 66:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fresh grass (6); of fresh grass (5); vegetation (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.25/#tree)

גָּלָ֣ה חָ֭צִיר וְנִרְאָה־דֶ֑שֶׁא וְ֝נֶאֶסְפ֗וּ עִשְּׂב֥וֹת הָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* it.disappears grass and it.appears fresh.grass and they.are.gathered \[the\].vegetation(s) of.\[the\].mountains

*JPS 1917:* When the hay is mown, and the tender grass showeth itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in;

[Job 38:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.27/#tree)

לְהַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ שֹׁ֭אָהוּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ מֹ֣צָא דֶֽשֶׁא׃

*Word for word:* to satisfy devastation and desolation and to cause.to.sprout a.going.forth of.fresh.grass

*JPS 1917:* To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1877.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1877/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).