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# יָרָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3419

**herbs** — used 3 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

herbs [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3419/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָרָק: herbs herbage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3419/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] herbs (coll.), herbage (green, greens)—abs. יָרָק Dt 11:10 + 2 times; cstr. יְרַק Is 37:27 = 2 K 19:26;—גַּן־יָרָק Dt 11:10 1 K 21:2; אֲרֻחַת יָרָק Pr 15:17; as subst., יְרַק דֶּשֶׁא Is 37:27 = 2 K 19:26 green shoots of grass (‖ עֵשֶׂב שָׂדֶה, etc.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of vegetable\[s\] (2); vegetable\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.17/#tree)

ט֤וֹב אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְאַהֲבָה־שָׁ֑ם מִשּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס וְשִׂנְאָה־בֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good a.portion of.vegetable\[s\] and love \[is\].there more than.an.ox fattened and hatred \[is\].with it

*JPS 1917:* Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

[Deuteronomy 11:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.11.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.11.10/#tree)

כִּ֣י הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אַתָּ֤ה בָא־שָׁ֙מָּה֙ לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ לֹ֣א כְאֶ֤רֶץ מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ הִ֔וא אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְצָאתֶ֖ם מִשָּׁ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּזְרַע֙ אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֔ וְהִשְׁקִ֥יתָ בְרַגְלְךָ֖ כְּגַ֥ן הַיָּרָֽק׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the land where you \[are\].about.to.go to (to) to take possession.of.it not \[is\].like the.land of.Egypt it where you.came.out from there where you.sowed (et) seed your and you.watered.\[it\] with foot your like.(the) garden of.(the) vegetable\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed, and didst water it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3419.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3419/): 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).