חָצִיר
cha.tsir
“grass”
Definition
grass; also a leek (collectively)
perhaps originally the same as H2681 (חָצִיר), from the greenness of a courtyard;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
חָצִיר appears 20 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power,are dismayed and ashamed.They are like plants in the field,tender green shoots,grass on the rooftops,scorched before it is grown.
They will sprout among the grasslike willows by flowing streams.
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
May they be like grass on the rooftops,which withers before it can grow,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.