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# herbage

noun (no plural in common use)

«herbage» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Herbage is grass and green plants, especially the food that animals graze on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, herbage is the green grass that animals trample or eat, and in a fine spring it is lush

### Examples

- The cows grazed on sweet herbage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/#x1)
- The elephants trampled the herbage flat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/#x2)
- After the rain, the herbage was thick and green. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

The prophets use dried-up grass to show a land struck by drought and ruin. The tradition reads such famine as a sign of God's warning to the people. In the primary lessons: in stories, herbage is the green grass that animals trample or eat, and in a fine spring it is lush

### Examples

- For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the herbage faileth, there is no green thing. (Prophets ISA.15.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/#x1)
- And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. (Prophets JER.14.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «herbage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«herbage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/herbage.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «herbage» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«herbage» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/herbage.html) on Mova free.