It refers to plants that are green and leafy, often used as food for both humans and animals.
About Green Vegetation
We consider here leafy vegetables that were either grown or gathered, or both. Four types are listed in the Bible: bitter herbs, garlic, leeks, and onions. Apart from these, we know from excavations in the Near East and from Greek and Roman literature that other species of leafy vegetables, such as garden peas and fenugreek (literally “Greek hay”), were harvested and eaten for centuries and even millennia before Bible times. They were almost certainly eaten in Bible times, even though we find no reference to them in Scripture.
Key References
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered,
All Scripture References (14)
Genesis (2)
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
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.
Deuteronomy (1)
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
2 Samuel (1)
is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
2 Kings (1)
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 (2)
Psalms (2)
He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
Proverbs (1)
When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered,
Isaiah (3)
The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
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.
When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
Jeremiah (1)
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.