Definition

grass; also a leek (collectively)

Etymology

perhaps originally the same as H2681 (חָצִיר), from the greenness of a courtyard;

Word family

• חָצִיר châtsîyr

How the KJV renders it

• grass
• hay
• herb
• leek

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.