Bible Dictionary: Vegetation

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The plant life of a region or locale.

2. (n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.

3. (n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.

Greek

1008. botane -- grass, fodder
... Word Origin from bosko Definition grass, fodder NASB Word Usage vegetation (1).
herb. From bosko; herbage (as if for grazing) -- herb. see GREEK bosko. ...
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200. akris -- a locust
... locust. Apparently from the same as akron; a locust (as pointed, or as lighting
on the top of vegetation) -- locust. see GREEK akron. (akridas) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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2048. eremos -- solitary, desolate
... The shows Himself strong in the "limiting" (difficult) scenes of life. [2048 ()
in the strict sense expresses a (not merely "sparse vegetation"). ...
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5528. chortos -- a feeding place, food, grass
... grass, hay. Apparently a primary word; a "court" or "garden", ie (by implication,
of pasture) herbage or vegetation -- blade, grass, hay. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3418. yereq -- green, greenness
... From yaraq (in the sense of vacuity of color); properly, pallor, ie Hence, the
yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation; concretely, verdure, ie Grass or ...
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6212a. eseb -- herb, herbage
... 6212, 6212a. eseb. 6212b . herb, herbage. Transliteration: eseb Short Definition:
vegetation. Word Origin from an unused word Definition ...
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2919. tal -- night mist, dew
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition night mist, dew NASB Word Usage dew
(31). dew. From talal; dew (as covering vegetation) -- dew. see HEBREW talal. ...
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1877. deshe -- grass
... from dasha Definition grass NASB Word Usage fresh grass (1), grass (3), green (1),
herb (3), new grass (1), new growth (1), tender grass (2), vegetation (2). ...
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Library

Elijah the Tishbite
... thought of calamity, soon had occasion for serious reflection; for after a few months
the earth, unrefreshed by dew or rain, became dry, and vegetation withered ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 9 elijah the tishbite.htm

The Early Training of a Race.
... In the springtime these valleys are covered by a sparse vegetation; from a few
perennial springs flow waters that irrigate the immediately surrounding land ...
/.../kent/the making of a nation/study xi the early training.htm

Light and Shade.
... the city was spread out an extensive valley of some ten or fifteen miles in width
and some twenty or twenty-five in length, covered with luxuriant vegetation. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/iv light and shade.htm

Back to Eden.
... God. Her influence upon them for good will be as the heavy fertilizing eastern
dews and the life-giving showers are to vegetation. ...
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Seed among Thorns
... the poor little rootlets cannot get through that, and so when the hot Syrian sun
shines down upon the field, there is an unnatural heat, and a swift vegetation ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/seed among thorns.htm

To Prevent Ambiguity, we must Begin with Clear Definition.
... [3707] But Aristotle, while he thinks that plants are possessed of a life of vegetation
and nutrition ... The Stoics do not call the power of vegetation, life. ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter iv to prevent ambiguity we.htm

The Debate Therefore, Set up by the Deists, About Reason and Faith ...
... them both, in the same degree of inability to alter, increase, or lessen the natural
power of either of them, as the eye hath to alter the vegetation, or color ...
/.../law/the way to divine knowledge/way-2-122 the debate therefore set.htm

The Savanna of Aripo
... My days in the island were growing short; and the most I could do was to see at
Aripo a small specimen of that peculiar Savanna vegetation, which occupies ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xii the savanna of.htm

The Dispensation of the Spirit.
... were to pour its fertilizing inundation over the country, the result would be the
impartation of a vigorous and gigantic growth to the vegetation already in ...
/.../robertson/sermons preached at brighton/iii the dispensation of the.htm

Voyage to Benares.
... The land down to the water's edge was covered with the densest tropical vegetation,
so that the banks often bounded our view, except when the trees on it were ...
/.../life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter ii voyage to benares.htm

Thesaurus

Vegetation (18 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant
vegetation. ... Multi-Version Concordance Vegetation (18 Occurrences). ...
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Dew (35 Occurrences)
... The heat becomes intense, the ground hard, and vegetation would perish but
for the moist west winds that come each night from the sea. ...
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Elamites (2 Occurrences)
... Contents 1. Geographical Position and Names 2. Surface Configuration 3. Mountain
Ranges 4. Rivers 5. Climate 6. Vegetation 7. Fauna 8. The Population 9. The ...
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Elam (24 Occurrences)
... Contents 1. Geographical Position and Names 2. Surface Configuration 3. Mountain
Ranges 4. Rivers 5. Climate 6. Vegetation 7. Fauna 8. The Population 9. The ...
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Botany
... In connection with this last, it may be mentioned that, next to the strong sunlight
and drought, the great enemy of vegetation over a great part of the ...
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Garden (68 Occurrences)
... where there is no rain during 4 or 5 months, at least, of the year, the gardens
are often the only spots where trees and other vegetation can flourish, and ...
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Tammuz (1 Occurrence)
... His death is supposed to typify the long, dry summer of Syria and Palestine, when
vegetation perishes, and his return to life the rainy season when the parched ...
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Barren (44 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile. 3. (a.) Unproductive;
fruitless; unprofitable; empty. 4. (a.) Mentally dull; stupid. ...
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Cyrene (7 Occurrences)
... The range drops down toward the North in a series of terrace-like elevations, thus
giving to the region a great variety of climate and vegetation. ...
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Cities (427 Occurrences)
... But, on the other hand, the region South of the sea is by no means as devoid of
vegetation as is sometimes represented, while there are convincing arguments to ...
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Bible Concordance

Vegetation (18 Occurrences)

Luke 12:28 But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!
(WEY)

Hebrews 6:7 For land which has drunk in the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sakes, indeed, it is tilled, has a share in God's blessing.
(WEY NAS RSV)

Genesis 1:11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 1:12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 19:25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 29:23 and that the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and a burning, that
(See NIV)

2 Kings 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
(See NAS)

Psalms 72:16 There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
(See NAS)

Psalms 104:14 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
(See NAS)

Psalms 105:35 ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.
(See NAS RSV)

Isaiah 15:6 The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 37:27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 14:6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
(See NAS)

Amos 7:2 It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
(See NAS)

Micah 5:7 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don't wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
(See NAS)

Zechariah 10:1 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
(See NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Vegetation

Vegetation for Food

Vegetation: Created on the Third Day

Related Terms

Dew (35 Occurrences)

Elamites (2 Occurrences)

Elam (24 Occurrences)

Botany

Garden (68 Occurrences)

Tammuz (1 Occurrence)

Barren (44 Occurrences)