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title: חָצִיר — green grass · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָצִיר (lemma:חָצִיר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: green grass. BDB 1906: n.m. green grass, herbage. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָצִיר

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«חָצִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **green grass** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:חָצִיר · **BDB:** חָצִיר²

### Glosses

leek\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

green grass [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e6_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. green grass, herbage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e6_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 15:6 green grass, herbage, abs. חָצִיר Nu 11:5 + 16 times; cstr. חֲצִיר Is 37:27 = 2 K 19:26, ψ 129:6;— grass, as food for animals 1 K 18:5; Jb 40:15 ψ 104:14; 147:8; Pr 27:25 (‖ דֶּשֶׁא and עֵשֶׂב), Is 15:6 (‖ דֶּשֶׁא and יֶרֶק); spec. of leeks (as still sometimes in Aramaic, v. Löwpp. 226, 228) Nu 11:5 (v. Di); in sim. of abundant growth Is 44:4 (v. 𝔊 Ew Che); on Is 35:7; v. I. חָצִיר supr. as type of what is quickly perishing Jb 8:12, hence fig. of perishing enemies חֲצִיר גַּגּוֹת Is 37:27 = 2 K 19:26 (‖ דֶּשֶׁא, עֵשֶׂב), ψ 129:6, i.e. having no depth of root; of wicked, soon to be cut down ψ 37:2; with special reference to Israel’s oppressors Is 40:6 (‖ ציץ \[השׂרה\]), v 7 (‖ id.), v 7, 8 (‖ id.), 51:12; in sim. of frail man ψ 90:5; man’s days ψ 103:15 (‖ ציץ השׂדה).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָצִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e6_5b4_5d9_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 11:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.5/)

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זָכַ֙רְנוּ֙ אֶת־הַדָּגָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־נֹאכַ֥ל בְּמִצְרַ֖יִם חִנָּ֑ם אֵ֣ת הַקִּשֻּׁאִ֗ים וְאֵת֙ הָֽאֲבַטִּחִ֔ים וְאֶת־הֶחָצִ֥יר וְאֶת־הַבְּצָלִ֖ים וְאֶת־הַשּׁוּמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* we.remember (et) the fish which we.ate in Egypt for.nothing (et) the cucumbers and (et) the watermelons and (et) the leek\[s\] and (et) the onions and (et) the garlic(s)

*JPS 1917:* We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

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