Topic
Herbs, &C
59 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 1:11Torrey GOD — Created
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12Torrey GOD — Created
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:28Torrey Given as food to man
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:29Torrey Given as food to man
¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Genesis 2:5Torrey GOD — Created
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
- Genesis 9:3Torrey Given as food to man
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Genesis 25:34Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Lentiles
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 30:14Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Mandrakes
¶ And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
- Exodus 2:3Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Bulrushes
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
- Exodus 9:22–25Torrey DESTROYED BY — Hail and lightning
¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward…
- Exodus 9:31Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Barley
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
- Exodus 9:32Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Rye
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
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- Exodus 10:12 Torrey DESTROYED BY — Locusts, &c
- Exodus 10:15 Torrey DESTROYED BY — Locusts, &c
- Exodus 12:8 Torrey Bitter, used at passover
- Exodus 12:22 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Hyssop
- Numbers 9:11 Torrey Bitter, used at passover
- Numbers 11:5 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Cucumber
- Numbers 22:4 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Grass
- Deuteronomy 11:10 Torrey Cultivated in gardens
- Deuteronomy 32:2 Torrey Require rain dew
- 2 Samuel 14:30 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Barley
- 2 Samuel 17:28 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Beans
- 1 Kings 4:33 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Hyssop
- 1 Kings 21:2 Torrey Cultivated in gardens
- 2 Kings 4:39 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Gourds
- 2 Kings 4:40 Torrey Poisonous, not fit for man's use
- 2 Kings 19:26 Torrey Called the green herbs
- Job 8:11 Torrey FOUND IN — The marshes
- Job 24:5 Torrey FOUND IN — The deserts
- Job 30:4 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Mallows
- Job 38:26 Torrey Require rain dew
- Job 38:27 Torrey GOD — Causes to grow
- Job 40:21 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Reeds
- Psalms 37:2 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the wicked
- Psalms 104:14 Torrey GOD — Causes to grow
- Psalms 105:34 Torrey DESTROYED BY — Locusts, &c
- Psalms 105:35 Torrey DESTROYED BY — Locusts, &c
- Proverbs 15:17 Torrey Cultivated for food
- Proverbs 27:25 Torrey FOUND IN — The mountains
- Song of Songs 4:14 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Aloe
- Song of Songs 7:13 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Mandrakes
- Isaiah 1:8 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Cucumber
- Isaiah 18:4 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Dew on,) of grace given to saints
- Isaiah 19:6 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Reeds
- Isaiah 28:25 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Fitches
- Isaiah 28:27 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Cummin
- Isaiah 42:15 Torrey DESTROYED BY — Drought
- Isaiah 58:5 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Bulrushes
- Jeremiah 12:4 Torrey FOUND IN — The fields
- Jeremiah 12:13 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Wheat
- Jeremiah 17:6 Torrey FOUND IN — The deserts
- Jeremiah 48:6 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Heath
- Ezekiel 4:9 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Millet
- Matthew 13:30 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Tares or Darnel
- Matthew 23:23 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Anise
- Luke 11:42 Torrey DESTROYED BY — Tithable among the Jews
- Romans 14:2 Torrey Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints
- Hebrews 6:7 Torrey Cultivated for food
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 82 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Called the green herbs 2Ki 19:26
- GOD
- Each kind of, contains its own seed Ge 1:11,12
- Given as food to man Ge 1:28,29; 9:3
- FOUND IN
- Cultivated in gardens De 11:10; 1Ki 21:2
- Cultivated for food Pr 15:17; Heb 6:7
- Require rain dew De 32:2; Job 38:26,27
- Mode of watering, alluded to De 11:10
- MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Aloe So 4:14
- Anise Mt 23:23
- Barley Ex 9:31; 2Sa 14:30
- Beans 2Sa 17:28
- Bulrushes Ex 2:3; Isa 58:5
- Calamus So 4:14
- Cummin Isa 28:27; Mt 23:23
- Cucumber Nu 11:5; Isa 1:8
- Fitches Isa 28:25,27
- Flag Ex 2:3; Job 8:11
- Flax Ex 9:31
- Garlic Nu 11:5
- Gourds 2Ki 4:39
- Grass Nu 22:4
- Heath Jer 17:6; 48:6
- Hyssop Ex 12:22; 1Ki 4:33
- Leeks Nu 11:5
- Lentiles Ge 25:34
- Mandrakes Ge 30:14; So 7:13
- Mallows Job 30:4
- Millet Eze 4:9
- Melon Nu 11:5
- Mint Mt 23:23
- Myrrh So 4:14
- Onions Nu 11:5
- Reeds Job 40:21; Isa 19:6
- Rushes Job 8:11
- Rye Ex 9:32
- Saffron So 4:14
- Spikenard So 4:14
- Tares or Darnel Mt 13:30
- Wheat Ex 9:32; Jer 12:13
- Bitter, used at passover Ex 12:8; Nu 9:11
- Poisonous, not fit for man's use 2Ki 4:39,40
- DESTROYED BY
- Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints Ro 14:2
- ILLUSTRATIVE
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.