Bible Verses about Herbs

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 09/19/2019

What does the Bible say about Herbs? Discover the top Bible verses about Herbs from the Old and New Testaments. Read through the biblical references of Herbs to learn more about its meaning and significance. May you find some insight from these related scripture quotes!

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Luke 11:42

42 “Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.
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Exodus 12:8

8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.
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Numbers 9:11

11 but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
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Job 30:4

4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.
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2 Kings 4:39-40

39 One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
40 The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
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Lamentations 3:15

15 He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.
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Numbers 11:5

5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
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Matthew 23:23

23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
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Proverbs 15:17

17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
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Psalms 104:14

14 He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth:
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Job 8:11

11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
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Song of Songs 4:14

14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
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Deuteronomy 11:10

10 The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden.
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Genesis 1:11-12

11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
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Isaiah 28:27

27 Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a stick.
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Genesis 9:3

3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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Hebrews 6:7

7 Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.
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Ezekiel 4:9

9 “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.
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Romans 14:2

2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.
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Ezekiel 47:12

12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”
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Jeremiah 17:6

6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
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Exodus 9:31

31 (The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.
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Exodus 2:3

3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
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Exodus 9:32

32 The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)
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Genesis 1:29

29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
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Exodus 30:23

23 “Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant calamus,
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Genesis 1:29-30

29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
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Jeremiah 12:4

4 How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.”
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1 Kings 21:2

2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
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Isaiah 28:25

25 When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? Does he not plant wheat in its place,barley in its plot,and spelt in its field?
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Genesis 1:29-31

29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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Proverbs 27:25

25 When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
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Exodus 12:22

22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.
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1 Kings 4:33

33 He spoke about plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish.
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Psalms 37:2

2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.
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Isaiah 18:4

4 This is what the LORD says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
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Genesis 1:11

11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
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Genesis 1:30

30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
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Genesis 2:5

5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
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Deuteronomy 32:2

2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.
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Isaiah 1:8

8 Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.
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Genesis 30:14

14 During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
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Exodus 10:15

15 They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
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Isaiah 42:15

15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.
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Revelation 22:1-2

1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
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1 Timothy 5:23

23 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
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Psalms 51:7

7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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Proverbs 17:22

Merry Heart
22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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Genesis 1:26

In what ways do you think we are in the likeness of God? - Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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