'Grass' in the Bible

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

And she said, We have a great store of dry grass and cattle-food, and there is room for you.

Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing their feet.

when all of a sudden seven healthy, plump cows emerged from the Nile to graze in the grass that grew in the reeds that lined the bank.

and behold, seven cows, fat and sleek came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the marsh grass.

And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.

And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.

They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.

And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands;

And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands;

And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.

And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;

Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.

Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.

And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands;

Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.

All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.

And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.

And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands;

Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands:

Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.

And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands;

Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;

Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;

Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.

Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.

But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.

And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, in search of grass-land for their flocks.

And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

And these whose names are given came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and made an attack on the Meunim who were living there, and put an end to them to this day, and took their place, because there was grass there for their flocks.

And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small towns and in all the grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits.

And Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the herds in the grass-lands of Sharon, and Shaphat, the son of Adlai, for those in the valleys;

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?Can the rushes or reed grass grow without water?

Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

to satisfy the parched wastelandand cause the grass to sprout?

He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

He causes me to lie down in pastures of green grass; he guides me beside quiet waters.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes strawand as dry grass shrivels in the flame,so their roots will become like something rottenand their blossoms will blow away like dust,for they have rejectedthe instruction of the Lord of Hosts,and they have despisedthe word of the Holy One of Israel.

And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

You conceive dried grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weeds and thistle plants in her fortresses; and it shall be [the] settlement of jackals, green grass for [the] daughters of an ostrich.

And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.