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# herbage

«herbage» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **grass and green plants, especially the food that animals…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural in common use)

### meaning for a pupil

Herbage is grass and green plants, especially the food that animals graze on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The prophets use dried-up grass to show a land struck by drought and ruin. The tradition reads such famine as a sign of God's warning to the people. In the primary lessons: in stories, herbage is the green grass that animals trample or eat, and in a fine spring it is lush

### examples

- For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the herbage faileth, there is no green thing. (Prophets ISA.15.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/#x1)
- And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. (Prophets JER.14.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/#x2)
- The cows grazed on sweet herbage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/#x3)
- The elephants trampled the herbage flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/#x4)
- After the rain, the herbage was thick and green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «herbage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/herbage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.