27 Bible Verses about Herbs
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God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you,
Every living creature will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.
Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so.
He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
down the middle of the broad street of the city. The tree of life was on both sides of the river, bearing 12 kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations,
It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when grown, it’s taller than the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”
It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!
For you will be covered with the morning dew,
and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden.
“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Let my teaching fall like rain
and my word settle like dew,
like gentle rain on new grass
and showers on tender plants.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.
For, the Lord said to me:
I will quietly look out from My place,
like shimmering heat in sunshine,
like a rain cloud in harvest heat.
For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.
One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware of what they were.
No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.
All kinds of trees providing food will grow along both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fresh fruit because the water comes from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for medicine.”
How long will the land mourn
and the grass of every field wither?
Because of the evil of its residents,
animals and birds have been swept away,
for the people have said,
“He cannot see what our end will be.”
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the Diet of the jews » Articles used for » Herbs
For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.
Food » Articles of » Herbs
For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.
Gardens » Kinds of, mentioned in scripture » Herbs
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand
So Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mandrakes
and at our doors is every delicacy—
new as well as old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.
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Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field.
Herbs » Cultivated in gardens
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand
So Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard
Herbs » Require rain and dew
and my word settle like dew,
like gentle rain on new grass
and showers on tender plants.
to bring rain on an uninhabited land, [on] a desert with no human life, to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Heath
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.
Be like a juniper bush
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cummin
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Barley
The flax and the barley were destroyed because the barley was ripe
Then Absalom said to his servants, “See, Joab has a field right next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set fire to it!” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Wheat
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.
Be put to shame by your harvests
because of the Lord’s burning anger.
but the wheat and the spelt were not destroyed since they are later crops.
Herbs » Cultivated for food
For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Fitches
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?
He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,
with spelt as their border.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Hyssop
He described trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall. He also taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood
Herbs » Destroyed by » Locusts, &c
The Lord then said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left.”
They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.
Herbs » Illustrative » Of the wicked
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.
Herbs » God » Created
Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.”
No shrub of the field
Herbs » Bitter, used at passover
They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Such people are to observe it in the second month, on the fourteenth day at twilight. They are to eat the animal with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
Herbs » Given as food to man
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,
Every living creature will be food for you;
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cucumber
We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a shack in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Bulrushes
But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
A day for a person to deny himself,
to bow his head like a reed,
and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Will you call this a fast
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
Herbs » Found in » The deserts
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.
Herbs » God » Causes to grow
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Reeds
they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched.
Reed and rush will die.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Spikenard
with all the trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
with all the best spices.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Calamus
with all the trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
with all the best spices.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Saffron
with all the trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
with all the best spices.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flag
But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Aloe
with all the trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
with all the best spices.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » myrrh
with all the trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
with all the best spices.
Herbs » Given for food
God also said, "Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you, for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth-everything having the breath of life in it. [I have given] every green plant for food." And it was so.
Herbs » Mode of watering, alluded to
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand
Herbs » Each kind of, contains its own seed
Then God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds." And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Herbs » Poisonous, not fit for man's use
One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware [of what they were]. They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, "There's death in the pot, man of God!" And they were unable to eat it.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Beans
brought beds, basins,
Herbs » Destroyed by » Hail and lightning
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt-on man and beast and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt." So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. read more.
Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast. The hail beat down every plant of the field and shattered every tree in the field.
Herbs » Found in » The mountains
and the grain from the hills is gathered in,
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Tares or darnel
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Lentiles
Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Anise
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mint
Herbs » Found in » The fields
and the grass of every field wither?
Because of the evil of its residents,
animals and birds have been swept away,
for the people have said,
“He cannot see what our end will be.”
Herbs » Called the green herbs
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Garlic
We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Onions
We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Leeks
We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Melon
We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Gourds
One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware of what they were.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Grass
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.”
Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,
Herbs » Destroyed by » Drought
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Millet
“Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days.
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flax
The flax and the barley were destroyed because the barley was ripe
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Rye
but the wheat and the spelt were not destroyed since they are later crops.
Herbs » Illustrative » (dew on,) of grace given to saints
For, the Lord said to me:
like shimmering heat in sunshine,
like a rain cloud in harvest heat.
Herbs » Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints
Herbs » Destroyed by » Titheable among the jews
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mallows
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Rushes
Herbs » Found in » The marshes
Mountains » Abounded with » Herbs
and the grain from the hills is gathered in,
Topics on Herbs
Bitter Herbs
Proverbs 5:3-4
and her words are
Herbs And Spices
John 19:39-40Nicodemus