חָצִיר

Numbers 11:5 הֶחָצִ֥יר the leek[s]

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

1 Kings 18:5 חָצִ֗יר grass

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.”

2 Kings 19:26 חֲצִ֣יר grass of

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.

Job 8:12 חָצִ֣יר herbage

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.

Job 40:15 חָ֝צִ֗יר grass

Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox.

Psalm 37:2 כֶ֭חָצִיר like <the> grass

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

Here: "Like the grass": ordinary wild grass that springs up after the rains and is gone by summer. It was the stock image in Israel for anything that looks lush but doesn't last.

Psalm 90:5 כֶּחָצִ֥יר like <the> grass

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Here: 'Like the grass'. This is the wild green growth that covers Levantine hillsides after rain and dies quickly. It is the standard biblical picture of how short human life is (Isa 40:6–8; Ps 103:15–16).

Psalm 103:15 כֶּחָצִ֣יר [are] like <the> grass

As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;

Here: 'Like the grass': the green growth that springs up across the hills after the winter rains and is scorched brown within weeks. The image is of something common, abundant and short-lived.

Psalm 104:14 חָצִ֨יר׀ grass

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Here: The fresh green growth that springs up after rain and withers quickly (Ps 103:15; Isa 40:6–8). Here it is pasture and fodder for the herds.

Psalm 129:6 כַּחֲצִ֣יר like [the] grass of

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

Psalm 147:8 חָצִֽיר׃ grass

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.

Here: Wild green grass and fodder, food for grazing animals. That leads straight into verse 9, where God feeds the animals and the young ravens.

Proverbs 27:25 חָ֭צִיר grass

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

Isaiah 15:6 חָצִיר֙ grass

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

Isaiah 35:7 חָצִ֖יר herbage

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

Here: Usually "grass," the green growth that withers quickly in Isaiah (40:6–8). But the same spelling in 34:13 means "enclosure, haunt" for ostriches, and the echo here is probably deliberate. Most read: mere grass will become reeds.

Isaiah 37:27 חֲצִ֣יר grass of

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.

Isaiah 40:6 חָצִ֔יר [is] grass

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

Here: “Grass,” the green growth that springs up after the rains and is gone by summer. There is no verb, so the Hebrew says bluntly “all flesh, grass.” It is an identification, not just a likeness (v.7 makes it explicit: “surely the people are grass”).

Isaiah 40:7 חָצִיר֙ חָצִ֖יר grass, [is] grass

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

Isaiah 40:8 חָצִ֖יר grass

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Here: The fresh green growth that covers Judean hillsides after the winter rains and is gone within weeks. Verse 7 has just made it a picture of people: 'surely the people are grass'.

Isaiah 44:4 חָצִ֑יר grass

They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

Here: Fresh green grass that comes up fast after water. It is the same word as "all flesh is grass" in Isaiah 40:6–8. There grass is the picture of how quickly people fade. Here it is the picture of lush, sudden growth.

Isaiah 51:12 חָצִ֥יר [who] grass

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

Here: Grass that lasts only a season and is scorched in a day. It deliberately recalls 40:6–8: 'all flesh is grass… the grass withers'.