27 Bible Verses about Herbs

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Genesis 1:29

And God will say, Lo, I gave to you every green herb scattering seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree scattering seed; to you it shall be for food.

Genesis 1:11

And God will say the earth shall bring forth the tender grass, and the green herb bearing seed, and the fruit tree making fruit according to its kind, in which is the seed in it upon the earth: and it shall be so.

Psalm 104:14

Causing grass to spring up for the cattle, and the green herb for the service of man, to bring forth bread from the earth:

Genesis 1:12

And the earth shall bring forth the tender grass, the green herb bearing seed according to its kind, and the tree making fruit in which the seed is in it, according to its kind: and God will see that it is good.

Revelation 22:2

In the midst of her broad way and of the river, hence and thence, the tree of life, making twelve fruits, in a month each one returning its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the cure of the nations.

Matthew 13:32

Which truly is less than all seeds; but when it has grown, it is greater than vegetables, and becomes a tree, so that the flying things of heaven come and lodge in its young shoots.

Genesis 3:18

And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field.

Genesis 1:30

And to every living thing of the earth, and to all the birds of the heavens and to every thing creeping upon the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food: and it shall be so.

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land where thou goest in there to possess it, it is not as the land of Egypt, where ye came from there, when thou shalt sow thy seed, and thou wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of green things:

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My word shall pour out as the dew, As the showers upon the herbage, And as the rains upon the green herb:

Isaiah 18:4

For thus said Jehovah to me, I will cause rest, and I will behold in my dwelling place as the serene heat upon the light, and as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest

Hebrews 6:7

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

Lamentations 3:15

He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink

2 Kings 4:39

And one will go forth to the field to gather green herbs, and he will find a vine of the field, and he will gather from it wild cucumbers of the field his garment full, and he will come and cut up into the pot of pottage: for he knew it not.

Genesis 2:5

And every green thing of the field before it shall be in the earth, and every green herb of the field before it will spring up: for Jehovah God rained not upon the earth and not a man to work the earth.

Ezekiel 47:12

And upon the torrent shall come up upon its lip, from hence and from thence, every tree of food, its leaf shall not fade, and its fruit shall not be consumed: for its months it shall bear early fruit, for its waters from the holy place they come forth: and its fruits were for food and its leaf for medicine.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbage of every field dry up from the evil of those dwelling in it the earth perished, and the birds; for they said, He shall not see our last Part

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Hebrews 6:7

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

Food » Articles of » Herbs

Hebrews 6:7

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

Gardens » Kinds of, mentioned in scripture » Herbs

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land where thou goest in there to possess it, it is not as the land of Egypt, where ye came from there, when thou shalt sow thy seed, and thou wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of green things:

1 Kings 21:2

And Ahab will speak to Naboth, saying, Wilt thou give to me thy vineyard? and it shall be to me for a garden of herbs, for it is near by my house: and I will give to thee in its stead a vineyard good above it; if good in thine eyes I will give thee silver the price of this.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mandrakes

Song of Songs 7:13

The mandrakes gave an odor, and upon our entrances all precious things, new also old, my beloved, I laid up for thee.

Genesis 30:14

And Reuben will go in the day of the harvest of wheat, and will find apples of mandrakes in the field, and he will bring them to Leah his mother: and Rachel will say to Leah, Give now to me of thy son's apples of mandrakes.

Herbs » Cultivated in gardens

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land where thou goest in there to possess it, it is not as the land of Egypt, where ye came from there, when thou shalt sow thy seed, and thou wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of green things:

1 Kings 21:2

And Ahab will speak to Naboth, saying, Wilt thou give to me thy vineyard? and it shall be to me for a garden of herbs, for it is near by my house: and I will give to thee in its stead a vineyard good above it; if good in thine eyes I will give thee silver the price of this.

Herbs » Require rain and dew

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My word shall pour out as the dew, As the showers upon the herbage, And as the rains upon the green herb:

Job 38:26-27

To cause it to rain upon the earth, not a man; the wilderness not a man in it? To satisfy the desolation and burning, and to cause the springing up of the finding of the tender grass?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Heath

Jeremiah 17:6

And he was as ruins in the sterile region, and he shall not see when good shall come; he inherited the arid places in the desert, a salt land, and it shall not be inhabited.

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your souls, and ye shall be as ruins in the desert

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cummin

Isaiah 28:27

For the fennel flower shall not be beaten with the threshing sledge, and the wheel of a wagon shall not be turned about upon the cummin; for the fennel flower shall be beaten out with the rod and the cummin with the rod.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Barley

Exodus 9:31

And the flax and the barley were struck: for the barley was ripe, and the flax high.

2 Samuel 14:30

And he will say to his servants, See, Joab's portion to my hand, and barley to him there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the portion on fire.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Wheat

Jeremiah 12:13

They sowed wheat and they reaped thorns: they were wearied, they shall not profit; and they were ashamed of your gains from the burning of the anger of Jehovah.

Exodus 9:32

And the wheat and spelt were not struck, for they were late.

Herbs » Cultivated for food

Hebrews 6:7

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Fitches

Isaiah 28:27

For the fennel flower shall not be beaten with the threshing sledge, and the wheel of a wagon shall not be turned about upon the cummin; for the fennel flower shall be beaten out with the rod and the cummin with the rod.

Isaiah 28:25

Did he not make level its face and disperse the fennel flower, and he will scatter the cummin, and he set the wheat in order, and designated the barley, and the spilt in his bound?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Hyssop

1 Kings 4:33

And he will speak concerning the woods, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop which went forth on the wall: and he will speak upon the cattle, and upon the birds, and upon the creeping things, and upon the fishes.

Exodus 12:22

And take ye a bundle of hyssop, and dip in the blood that is upon the threshhold, and touch upon the lintel, and upon the two door-posts from the blood which is upon the threshhold and ye shall not come forth each from the door of his house till morning.

Herbs » Destroyed by » Locusts, &c

Exodus 10:12

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt, with the locust, and it will come up upon the land of Egypt; and it shall eat every green herb of the land, all which the hail left

Exodus 10:15

And it will cover the eye of all the earth, and the land will be dark; and it will eat every green herb of the land, and all the fruit of the tree which the hail left: and not a green thing was left in the tree, and in the green herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt

Herbs » Illustrative » Of the wicked

2 Kings 19:26

And the inhabitants were short of hand, they were terrified and they were ashamed; they were the grass of the field and the green herbage, and the grass of the roofs, and blasted before it rose up.

Herbs » God » Created

Genesis 1:11

And God will say the earth shall bring forth the tender grass, and the green herb bearing seed, and the fruit tree making fruit according to its kind, in which is the seed in it upon the earth: and it shall be so.

Genesis 2:5

And every green thing of the field before it shall be in the earth, and every green herb of the field before it will spring up: for Jehovah God rained not upon the earth and not a man to work the earth.

Herbs » Bitter, used at passover

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it

Numbers 9:11

In the second month, in the fourteenth day, between the evenings they shall do it, upon unleavened and bitter herbs they shall eat it

Herbs » Given as food to man

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cucumber

Numbers 11:5

We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion was left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a field of cucumbers, as a city besieged.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Bulrushes

Exodus 2:3

And she will not be able any more to hide him, and she will take for him an ark of bulrush, and will pitch it with bitumen and with pitch, and she will put in it the child, and will put in the sedge by the lip of the river.

Isaiah 58:5

Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah.

Herbs » Found in » The deserts

Job 24:5

Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.

Jeremiah 17:6

And he was as ruins in the sterile region, and he shall not see when good shall come; he inherited the arid places in the desert, a salt land, and it shall not be inhabited.

Herbs » God » Causes to grow

Psalm 104:14

Causing grass to spring up for the cattle, and the green herb for the service of man, to bring forth bread from the earth:

Job 38:27

To satisfy the desolation and burning, and to cause the springing up of the finding of the tender grass?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Reeds

Isaiah 19:6

They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away.

Job 40:21

He will lie down under the shades, in the covering of the reed and marsh.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Spikenard

Song of Songs 4:14

Spikenard and saffron; the reed and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon; myrrh and aloes, with all the heads of spices.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Calamus

Song of Songs 4:14

Spikenard and saffron; the reed and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon; myrrh and aloes, with all the heads of spices.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Saffron

Song of Songs 4:14

Spikenard and saffron; the reed and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon; myrrh and aloes, with all the heads of spices.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flag

Exodus 2:3

And she will not be able any more to hide him, and she will take for him an ark of bulrush, and will pitch it with bitumen and with pitch, and she will put in it the child, and will put in the sedge by the lip of the river.

Job 8:11

Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water?

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Aloe

Song of Songs 4:14

Spikenard and saffron; the reed and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon; myrrh and aloes, with all the heads of spices.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » myrrh

Song of Songs 4:14

Spikenard and saffron; the reed and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon; myrrh and aloes, with all the heads of spices.

Herbs » Given for food

Genesis 1:29-30

And God will say, Lo, I gave to you every green herb scattering seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree scattering seed; to you it shall be for food. And to every living thing of the earth, and to all the birds of the heavens and to every thing creeping upon the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food: and it shall be so.

Herbs » Mode of watering, alluded to

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land where thou goest in there to possess it, it is not as the land of Egypt, where ye came from there, when thou shalt sow thy seed, and thou wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of green things:

Herbs » Each kind of, contains its own seed

Genesis 1:11-12

And God will say the earth shall bring forth the tender grass, and the green herb bearing seed, and the fruit tree making fruit according to its kind, in which is the seed in it upon the earth: and it shall be so. And the earth shall bring forth the tender grass, the green herb bearing seed according to its kind, and the tree making fruit in which the seed is in it, according to its kind: and God will see that it is good.

Herbs » Poisonous, not fit for man's use

2 Kings 4:39-40

And one will go forth to the field to gather green herbs, and he will find a vine of the field, and he will gather from it wild cucumbers of the field his garment full, and he will come and cut up into the pot of pottage: for he knew it not. And they will pour out for the men to eat., and it will be as they were eating from the pottage, and they cried out, and they will say, Death in the pot O man of God. And they could not eat.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Beans

2 Samuel 17:28

Beds and basins and vessels of earth, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched grain, and the bean and lentiles, and parched grain,

Herbs » Destroyed by » Hail and lightning

Exodus 9:22-25

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand toward the heavens, and there shall be hail upon all the land of Egypt, upon man and upon quadruped, and upon the green herb of the field in the land of Egypt And Moses will stretch forth his rod towards the heavens, and Jehovah gave voices, and hail; and fire will go upon the earth: and Jehovah will rain hail upon the land of Egypt And there will be hail and fire taking hold in the midst of the hail, exceedingly heavy, which was not as this upon all the land of Egypt from the time it was for a nation. read more.
And the hail will strike in all the land of Egypt, all which is in the field, from man, and even to quadruped, and every green herb of the field; the hail smote and broke in pieces every tree of the field.

Herbs » Found in » The mountains

Proverbs 27:25

The grass was uncovered and the young herbage was seen; and the green plants of the mountains were gathered.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Tares or darnel

Matthew 13:30

Suffer both to grow together till harvest; and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; and gather the wheat into my barn.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Lentiles

Genesis 25:34

And Jacob gave Esau food, and the boiling of lentiles; and he will eat and drink and will rise and go forth: and Esau will despise the birth-right

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Anise

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mint

Herbs » Found in » The fields

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbage of every field dry up from the evil of those dwelling in it the earth perished, and the birds; for they said, He shall not see our last Part

Herbs » Called the green herbs

2 Kings 19:26

And the inhabitants were short of hand, they were terrified and they were ashamed; they were the grass of the field and the green herbage, and the grass of the roofs, and blasted before it rose up.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Garlic

Numbers 11:5

We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Onions

Numbers 11:5

We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Leeks

Numbers 11:5

We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Melon

Numbers 11:5

We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Gourds

2 Kings 4:39

And one will go forth to the field to gather green herbs, and he will find a vine of the field, and he will gather from it wild cucumbers of the field his garment full, and he will come and cut up into the pot of pottage: for he knew it not.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Grass

Numbers 22:4

And Moab will say to the old men of Midian, Now this gathering will lick up all round about us, as the ox licking up the green of the field. And Balak, son of Zippor, the king of Moab in that time.

Herbs » Destroyed by » Drought

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste mountains and hills, and I will dry up all their green herbage; and I set the rivers for islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Millet

Ezekiel 4:9

And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and the bean, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and give them into one vessel, and make them to thee for bread, the number of days which thou didst lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flax

Exodus 9:31

And the flax and the barley were struck: for the barley was ripe, and the flax high.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Rye

Exodus 9:32

And the wheat and spelt were not struck, for they were late.

Herbs » Illustrative » (dew on,) of grace given to saints

Isaiah 18:4

For thus said Jehovah to me, I will cause rest, and I will behold in my dwelling place as the serene heat upon the light, and as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest

Herbs » Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints

Herbs » Destroyed by » Titheable among the jews

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mallows

Job 30:4

Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Rushes

Job 8:11

Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water?

Herbs » Found in » The marshes

Job 8:11

Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water?

Mountains » Abounded with » Herbs

Proverbs 27:25

The grass was uncovered and the young herbage was seen; and the green plants of the mountains were gathered.

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Bitter Herbs

Proverbs 5:3-4

For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil:

Herbs And Spices

John 19:39-40

And Nicodemus also came, he having come to Jesus at first by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds.

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