27 Bible Verses about Herbs

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Genesis 1:29

Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 1:11

God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so.

Psalm 104:14

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

Genesis 1:12

The land produced vegetation -- plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

Romans 14:2

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

Revelation 22:2

flowing down the middle of the city's main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.

Matthew 13:32

It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the wild birds come and nest in its branches."

Genesis 3:18

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

Genesis 1:30

And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground -- everything that has the breath of life in it -- I give every green plant for food." It was so.

Exodus 12:8

They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

Matthew 23:23

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

Isaiah 18:4

For this is what the Lord has told me: "I will wait and watch from my place, like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest."

Hebrews 6:7

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

Lamentations 3:15

He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

2 Kings 4:39

Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.

Genesis 2:5

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Ezekiel 47:12

On both sides of the river's banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."

Jeremiah 12:4

How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast, "God will not see what happens to us."

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Hebrews 6:7

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

Romans 14:2

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

Food » Articles of » Herbs

Hebrews 6:7

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

Romans 14:2

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

Gardens » Kinds of, mentioned in scripture » Herbs

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

1 Kings 21:2

Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, I will pay you silver for it."

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mandrakes

Song of Solomon 7:13

The mandrakes send out their fragrance; over our door is every delicacy, both new and old, which I have stored up for you, my lover.

Genesis 30:14

At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Herbs » Cultivated in gardens

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

1 Kings 21:2

Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, I will pay you silver for it."

Herbs » Require rain and dew

Deuteronomy 32:2

My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

Job 38:26-27

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings, to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Heath

Jeremiah 17:6

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Jeremiah 48:6

They will hear, 'Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!'

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cummin

Isaiah 28:27

Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail.

Matthew 23:23

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Barley

Exodus 9:31

(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.

2 Samuel 14:30

So he said to his servants, "Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom's servants set Joab's portion of the field on fire.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Wheat

Jeremiah 12:13

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

Exodus 9:32

But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are later crops.)

Herbs » Cultivated for food

Hebrews 6:7

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Fitches

Isaiah 28:27

Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail.

Isaiah 28:25

Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Hyssop

1 Kings 4:33

He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing animals, birds, insects, and fish.

Exodus 12:22

Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.

Herbs » Destroyed by » Locusts, &c

Exodus 10:12

The Lord said to Moses, "Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left."

Exodus 10:15

They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.

Herbs » Illustrative » Of the wicked

2 Kings 19:26

Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

Herbs » God » Created

Genesis 1:11

God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so.

Genesis 2:5

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Herbs » Bitter, used at passover

Exodus 12:8

They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

Numbers 9:11

They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

Herbs » Given as food to man

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cucumber

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Isaiah 1:8

Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Bulrushes

Exodus 2:3

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

Isaiah 58:5

Is this really the kind of fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the Lord?

Herbs » Found in » The deserts

Job 24:5

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

Jeremiah 17:6

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Herbs » God » Causes to grow

Psalm 104:14

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

Job 38:27

to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Reeds

Isaiah 19:6

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

Job 40:21

Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Spikenard

Song of Solomon 4:14

nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Calamus

Song of Solomon 4:14

nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Saffron

Song of Solomon 4:14

nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flag

Exodus 2:3

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

Job 8:11

Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Aloe

Song of Solomon 4:14

nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » myrrh

Song of Solomon 4:14

nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

Herbs » Given for food

Genesis 1:29-30

Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground -- everything that has the breath of life in it -- I give every green plant for food." It was so.

Herbs » Mode of watering, alluded to

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

Herbs » Each kind of, contains its own seed

Genesis 1:11-12

God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so. The land produced vegetation -- plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

Herbs » Poisonous, not fit for man's use

2 Kings 4:39-40

Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful. The stew was poured out for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, "Death is in the pot, O prophet!" They could not eat it.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Beans

2 Samuel 17:28

brought bedding, basins, and pottery utensils. They also brought food for David and all who were with him, including wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

Herbs » Destroyed by » Hail and lightning

Exodus 9:22-25

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt." When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the Lord caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt. Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. read more.
The hail struck everything in the open fields, both people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.

Herbs » Found in » The mountains

Proverbs 27:25

When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Tares or darnel

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn."'"

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Lentiles

Genesis 25:34

Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Anise

Matthew 23:23

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mint

Matthew 23:23

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

Herbs » Found in » The fields

Jeremiah 12:4

How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast, "God will not see what happens to us."

Herbs » Called the green herbs

2 Kings 19:26

Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Garlic

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Onions

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Leeks

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Melon

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Gourds

2 Kings 4:39

Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Grass

Numbers 22:4

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, "Now this mass of people will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field. Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.

Herbs » Destroyed by » Drought

Isaiah 42:15

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Millet

Ezekiel 4:9

"As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side -- 390 days -- you will eat it.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flax

Exodus 9:31

(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Rye

Exodus 9:32

But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are later crops.)

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

Isaiah 18:4

For this is what the Lord has told me: "I will wait and watch from my place, like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest."

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

Romans 14:2

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

Herbs » Destroyed by » Titheable among the jews

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mallows

Job 30:4

By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Rushes

Job 8:11

Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

Herbs » Found in » The marshes

Job 8:11

Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

Mountains » Abounded with » Herbs

Proverbs 27:25

When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

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Bitter Herbs

Proverbs 5:3-4

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,

Herbs And Spices

John 19:39-40

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

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