TR: eseb → chortos (Grass / Herb)¶

The Chain¶

Hebrew OT             LXX (Greek OT)          Greek NT
─────────             ──────────────          ────────
עֶשֶׂב (eseb)    →    χόρτος (chortos)   →    χόρτος (chortos)
H6212, 32x            22x as bridge           13x in NT
"grass/herb"          grass/herbage           grass, blade, hay

OT Usage (Hebrew)¶

Strong's	Word	Occurrences	Primary Meaning
H6212	עֶשֶׂב (eseb)	32 verses	grass, herb, tender shoot
H3418	יֶרֶק (yereq)	6 verses	green thing, verdure
H1877	דֶּשֶׁא (deshe)	overlap term	sprout/grass/tender vegetation
H2682	חָצִיר (chatsiyr)	overlap term	grass/hay

Key OT passages: Gen 1:11; Gen 1:29-30; Gen 3:18; Gen 9:3; Deut 11:15; Deut 32:2; Exo 9:22; Exo 10:15.

Canonical study: H6212-eseb.md

LXX Bridge¶

Hebrew	Greek Translation	Count	Notes
eseb (H6212)	χόρτος (G5528)	22	Primary equivalent; strongest bridge in gatherer output.
eseb (H6212)	βοτάνη (G1008)	8	Herbage/herb equivalent.
eseb (H6212)	χλωρός (G5515)	6	Green/color overlap.
eseb (H6212)	καρπός (G2590)	7	Fruit/produce contexts.
eseb (H6212)	ξηραίνω (G3583)	5	Withering/drying contexts.

Reverse bridge for G5528 chortos includes H6212 eseb (22), H2682 chatsiyr (14), H1877 deshe (8), and H3418 yereq (4). The Greek term gathers several Hebrew grass/herb words into one NT vocabulary item.

NT Usage (Greek)¶

Strong's	Word	Occurrences	Primary Meaning
G5528	χόρτος (chortos)	13 verses	grass, blade, hay, herbage

Key NT passages: Matt 6:30; Mark 4:28; Luke 12:28; John 6:10; 1 Cor 3:12; Jas 1:10; 1 Pet 1:24; Rev 8:7.

Canonical Greek study: TODO(need G5528 study)

Direct OT→NT Quotation / Allusion¶

NT Verse	Quotes/Uses OT	Shared Word	Significance
1 Pet 1:24	Isa 40:6-8	grass/herb → chortos	Uses grass imagery for human transience and word-of-God contrast.
Jas 1:10	grass/flower imagery	chortos	Applies grass-withering imagery to the rich person's passing glory.

Continuity and Shifts¶

What stays the same across testaments: - Grass/herb remains ordinary vegetation: provision for animals, a visible field plant, and an image of temporality. - Withering/drying imagery continues as a metaphor for human frailty and passing glory.

What shifts: - NT chortos can mean grass in a place where people sit (John 6:10), blade growth in a parable (Mark 4:28), hay as building material (1 Cor 3:12), and grass destroyed in judgment (Rev 8:7). - The Greek bridge merges eseb with other Hebrew vegetation words, so NT chortos should not be mapped one-to-one back to eseb without context.