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# חָצִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2682

**green grass** — used 20 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

green grass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2682/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָצִיר²: n.m. green grass, herbage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2682/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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;— 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 35:7; v. I. חָצִיר supr. as type of what is quickly perishing Jb 8:12, hence fig. of perishing enemies חֲצִיר גַּגּוֹת Is 37:27 = 2 K 19:26 (‖ דֶּשֶׁא, עֵשֶׂב), ψ 129:6, i.e. having no depth of root; of wicked, soon to be cut down ψ 37:2; with special reference to Israel’s oppressors Is 40:6 (‖ ציץ \[השׂרה\]), v 7 (‖ id.), v 7, 8 (‖ id.), 51:12; in sim. of frail man ψ 90:5; man’s days ψ 103:15 (‖ ציץ השׂדה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: grass (14); herbage (3); \[is\] grass (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 129:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.6/#tree)

יִ֭הְיוּ כַּחֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֑וֹת שֶׁקַּדְמַ֖ת שָׁלַ֣ף יָבֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.be like.\[the\] grass of.roofs which before it.has.shot.up it.has.withered

*JPS 1917:* Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;

[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;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2682.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2682/): 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).