Lexicon
עֲשַׂב
a.sav
H6211B
A:N Hebrew

grass

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a.sav denotes grass, explicitly the food given to a man living like the beasts in Daniel 5:21.

The attested use identifies grass as vegetation for eating: in Daniel 5:21 the APB renders the clause “He was fed grass like oxen.” The same noun also occurs in Daniel 4:12, Daniel 4:22, Daniel 4:29, and Daniel 4:30, though the translation does not isolate its contribution in those verses.

Senses in use

  1. Grass as food for beasts · dominant

    In Daniel 5:21, the determined singular form occurs in the account of a man dwelling with wild donkeys; the APB renders the clause “He was fed grass like oxen.” This directly presents the term as the vegetation given for animal-like feeding. The construct form in Daniel 4:12 and determined singular forms in Daniel 4:22, Daniel 4:29, and Daniel 4:30 occur in the same Daniel material, but the APB does not make the term's individual contribution identifiable there.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “grass” in Daniel 5:21. In Daniel 4:12, Daniel 4:22, Daniel 4:29, and Daniel 4:30, its loose verse-level rendering does not clearly identify a corresponding English word for this noun.

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