Grass
29 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
25 sections
- (On Tops of Houses) the Wicked
- (Refreshed by Dew and Showers) the Saints Refreshed By
- A Green Herb
- Called: Grass of the Earth
- Called: Grass of the Field
- Cattle Fed Upon
- Created on the Third Creative Day
- Destroyed by Drought
- Destroyed by Hail and Lightning
- Destroyed by Locusts
- Failure of, a Great Calamity
- Figurative
- God: Adorns and Clothes
- God: Causes to Grow
- God: Originally Created
- God: The Giver of
- God's Care of
- Mown
- Often Grew on the Tops of Houses
- On Roofs of Houses
- Ovens often Heated With
- Refreshed by Rain and Dew
- Springs out of the Earth
- Sufferings of Cattle from Failure of, Described
- when Young, Soft and Tender
(On Tops of Houses) the Wicked
- 2 Kings 19:26 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.
- Isaiah 37:27 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.
(Refreshed by Dew and Showers) the Saints Refreshed By
- Psalm 72:6 May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
- Micah 5:7 Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
A Green Herb
- Mark 6:39 Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.
Called: Grass of the Earth
- Revelation 9:4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Called: Grass of the Field
- Numbers 22:4 So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
Cattle Fed Upon
- Job 6:5 Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
- Jeremiah 50:11 “Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,
Created on the Third Creative Day
- Genesis 1:11 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.
Destroyed by Drought
- 1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- 1 Kings 18:5 Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
Destroyed by Hail and Lightning
- Revelation 8:7 Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.
Destroyed by Locusts
- Revelation 9:4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Failure of, a Great Calamity
- Isaiah 15:5–6 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim. …
Figurative
- Psalm 90:5–6 You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— …
- Isaiah 40:6 A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
- 1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- James 1:10–11 But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. …
God: Adorns and Clothes
- Matthew 6:30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
God: Causes to Grow
- Psalm 104:14 He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
- Psalm 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
God: Originally Created
- Genesis 1:11–12 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. …
God: The Giver of
- Deuteronomy 11:15 And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
God's Care of
- Matthew 6:30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
- Luke 12:28 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
Mown
- Psalm 72:6 May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
Often Grew on the Tops of Houses
- Psalm 129:6 May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
On Roofs of Houses
- Psalm 129:6 May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
Ovens often Heated With
- Matthew 6:30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Refreshed by Rain and Dew
- Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
- Proverbs 19:12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Springs out of the Earth
- 2 Samuel 23:4 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.’
Sufferings of Cattle from Failure of, Described
- Jeremiah 14:5–6 Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass. …
when Young, Soft and Tender
- Proverbs 27:25 When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered,
Related topics
Grass of Shortness and Uncertainty of LifeGrass of Prosperity of the Wicked
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.