'Grass' in the Bible

And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: 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.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-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.

Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

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.

It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth

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 to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

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;

Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

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

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

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

See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the 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.

For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

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.

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

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

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the 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.

The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

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.

And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.

The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.

Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?

And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.

The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.

So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.

And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.