HebrewH1877Noun (Masculine)

דֶּ֫שֶׁא

de.she

14Occurrences
H1877Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a sprout; by analogy, grass

from H1876 (דָּשָׁא);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
grass, new grass, green herb, vegetation, young Aramaic equivalent: de.te (*דֶּ֫תֶא *"grass" H1883)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

דֶּ֫שֶׁא appears 14 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
3
Genesis
2
Job
2
Psalms
2
2 Kings
1
2 Samuel
1
Deuteronomy
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

2 Kings 19:26BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 32:2BSB

Let my teaching fall like rainand my speech settle like dew,like gentle rain on new grass,like showers on tender plants.

Genesis 1:12BSB

The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Isaiah 37:27BSB

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.

Jeremiah 14:5BSB

Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawnbecause there is no grass.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.