27 Bible Verses about Herbs

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Genesis 1:29

And God said, Behold! I have given you every herb seeding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; to you it shall be for food.

Genesis 1:11

And God said, Let the earth bring forth tender sprouts (the herb seeding seed and the fruit tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself) upon the earth; and it was so.

Psalm 104:14

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for the service of man, to bring forth food out of the earth,

Genesis 1:12

And the earth brought forth tender sprouts, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed was in itself. And God saw that it was good.

Romans 14:2

For indeed one believes to eat all things; but being weak, another eats vegetables.

Revelation 22:2

In the midst of its street, and of the river, from here and from there, was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit according to one month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Matthew 13:32

which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.

Genesis 3:18

It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field.

Genesis 1:30

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul every green plant is for food; and it was so.

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land into which you go to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of herbs.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall drop down as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on the grass;

Isaiah 18:4

For so Jehovah said to me, I will take My rest, and I will look on in My dwelling place, like a clear heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Hebrews 6:7

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.

2 Kings 4:39

And one went out into the field to gather herbs. And he found a vine of the field, and gathered gourds from it in the field. And with the lap of his garment full, he came in and shredded them into the pot of pottage. For they did not know them.

Genesis 2:5

And every shrub of the field was not yet on the earth, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

Ezekiel 47:12

And all trees for food shall go up by the torrent, on its bank on this side, and on that side. Its leaf shall not fade, nor its fruit fail. It will bear by its months, because its waters come out from the sanctuary. And its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither from the evil of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds have been destroyed, because they said, He shall not see our last end.

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Hebrews 6:7

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

Romans 14:2

For indeed one believes to eat all things; but being weak, another eats vegetables.

Food » Articles of » Herbs

Hebrews 6:7

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

Romans 14:2

For indeed one believes to eat all things; but being weak, another eats vegetables.

Gardens » Kinds of, mentioned in scripture » Herbs

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land into which you go to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of herbs.

1 Kings 21:2

And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard so that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house. And I will give you a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you the worth of it in silver.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mandrakes

Song of Songs 7:13

The love-apples give a scent, and over our doors are all pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for You, O my Beloved.

Genesis 30:14

And Reuben went out in the days of the wheat harvest, and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, please give me some of your son's love-apples.

Herbs » Cultivated in gardens

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land into which you go to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of herbs.

1 Kings 21:2

And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard so that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house. And I will give you a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you the worth of it in silver.

Herbs » Require rain and dew

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall drop down as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on the grass;

Job 38:26-27

to cause rain to fall on the earth where no man is, a wilderness and no man in it; to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the source of grass to spring forth?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Heath

Jeremiah 17:6

For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your lives, and be like a naked thing in the wilderness.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cummin

Isaiah 28:27

For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cart wheel turned on cummin; but the dill is beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Barley

Exodus 9:31

And the flax and the barley were stricken, for the barley was in the head, and the flax was in bud.

2 Samuel 14:30

And he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire! And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Wheat

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns. They are worn out, but they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

Exodus 9:32

But the wheat and the rye were not stricken, for they had not grown up.

Herbs » Cultivated for food

Hebrews 6:7

(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Fitches

Isaiah 28:27

For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cart wheel turned on cummin; but the dill is beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod.

Isaiah 28:25

When he has made the face of it level, does he not cast out the dill and scatter the cummin, and throw in the choice wheat and the chosen barley and the spelt in its border?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Hyssop

1 Kings 4:33

And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

Exodus 12:22

And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the bowl, and strike the lintel and the doorposts with the blood in the bowl. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Herbs » Destroyed by » Locusts, &c

Exodus 10:12

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left.

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened. And they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there did not remain any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Herbs » Illustrative » Of the wicked

2 Kings 19:26

And their people were of small power, they were fearful and put to shame. They were like the grass of the field, and the green herb, like the grass on the house-tops, and like grain blasted before it was grown up.

Herbs » God » Created

Genesis 1:11

And God said, Let the earth bring forth tender sprouts (the herb seeding seed and the fruit tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself) upon the earth; and it was so.

Genesis 2:5

And every shrub of the field was not yet on the earth, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

Herbs » Bitter, used at passover

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

Numbers 9:11

They shall keep it the fourteenth day of the second month at evening, eating it with unleavened cakes and bitter herbs.

Herbs » Given as food to man

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cucumber

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion is left a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Bulrushes

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of papyrus for him, and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch, and put the child in it. And she laid it in the reeds by the river's edge.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?

Herbs » Found in » The deserts

Job 24:5

Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.

Herbs » God » Causes to grow

Psalm 104:14

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for the service of man, to bring forth food out of the earth,

Job 38:27

to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the source of grass to spring forth?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Reeds

Isaiah 19:6

And rivers shall be fouled; the Nile of Egypt will languish and dry up; the reed and the rush shall decay.

Job 40:21

He lies under the lotus, in the hiding place of the reed and the marsh.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Spikenard

Song of Songs 4:14

spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices;

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Calamus

Song of Songs 4:14

spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices;

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Saffron

Song of Songs 4:14

spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices;

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flag

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of papyrus for him, and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch, and put the child in it. And she laid it in the reeds by the river's edge.

Job 8:11

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Aloe

Song of Songs 4:14

spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices;

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » myrrh

Song of Songs 4:14

spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices;

Herbs » Given for food

Genesis 1:29-30

And God said, Behold! I have given you every herb seeding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; to you it shall be for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul every green plant is for food; and it was so.

Herbs » Mode of watering, alluded to

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land into which you go to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of herbs.

Herbs » Each kind of, contains its own seed

Genesis 1:11-12

And God said, Let the earth bring forth tender sprouts (the herb seeding seed and the fruit tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself) upon the earth; and it was so. And the earth brought forth tender sprouts, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed was in itself. And God saw that it was good.

Herbs » Poisonous, not fit for man's use

2 Kings 4:39-40

And one went out into the field to gather herbs. And he found a vine of the field, and gathered gourds from it in the field. And with the lap of his garment full, he came in and shredded them into the pot of pottage. For they did not know them. And they poured out for the men to eat. And it happened as they were eating of the pottage, they cried out and said, O man of God, death is in the pot! And they could not eat.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Beans

2 Samuel 17:28

brought beds and basins and earthen vessels, and wheat and barley and flour and roasted grain, and beans and lentils and other roasted food,

Herbs » Destroyed by » Hail and lightning

Exodus 9:22-25

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heavens. And Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and the fire came down to the ground. And Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt. And there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. read more.
And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast. And the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

Herbs » Found in » The mountains

Proverbs 27:25

When the hay is removed, and the tender grass is seen, and mountain-plants are gathered,

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Tares or darnel

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. And in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Lentiles

Genesis 25:34

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and soup of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up and went his way. And Esau despised his birthright.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Anise

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mint

Herbs » Found in » The fields

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither from the evil of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds have been destroyed, because they said, He shall not see our last end.

Herbs » Called the green herbs

2 Kings 19:26

And their people were of small power, they were fearful and put to shame. They were like the grass of the field, and the green herb, like the grass on the house-tops, and like grain blasted before it was grown up.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Garlic

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Onions

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Leeks

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Melon

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Gourds

2 Kings 4:39

And one went out into the field to gather herbs. And he found a vine of the field, and gathered gourds from it in the field. And with the lap of his garment full, he came in and shredded them into the pot of pottage. For they did not know them.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Grass

Numbers 22:4

And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now this company is licking up all around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

Herbs » Destroyed by » Drought

Isaiah 42:15

I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their plants. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up the pools.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Millet

Ezekiel 4:9

Take also to yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flax

Exodus 9:31

And the flax and the barley were stricken, for the barley was in the head, and the flax was in bud.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Rye

Exodus 9:32

But the wheat and the rye were not stricken, for they had not grown up.

Herbs » Illustrative » (dew on,) of grace given to saints

Isaiah 18:4

For so Jehovah said to me, I will take My rest, and I will look on in My dwelling place, like a clear heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Herbs » Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints

Romans 14:2

For indeed one believes to eat all things; but being weak, another eats vegetables.

Herbs » Destroyed by » Titheable among the jews

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mallows

Job 30:4

those plucking mallows by the bushes, and broom roots for their food.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Rushes

Job 8:11

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

Herbs » Found in » The marshes

Job 8:11

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

Mountains » Abounded with » Herbs

Proverbs 27:25

When the hay is removed, and the tender grass is seen, and mountain-plants are gathered,

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Bitter Herbs

Proverbs 5:3-4

For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil;

Herbs And Spices

John 19:39-40

And Nicodemus also came, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.

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