Bible Verses About Herbs
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for herbs, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 413 votes, led by Genesis 1:29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Herbs
Genesis 1:2966 votes
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.
Proverbs 15:1746 votes
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Genesis 9:345 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Genesis 1:3033 votes
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 1:29-3127 votes
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.
Ezekiel 47:1225 votes
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Psalms 51:722 votes
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
John 19:29-3021 votes
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
Exodus 12:2220 votes
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Numbers 9:1119 votes
The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Exodus 12:818 votes
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Psalms 104:1413 votes
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Isaiah 38:2113 votes
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Hebrews 6:713 votes
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
1 Kings 4:3311 votes
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
1 Corinthians 10:3111 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Matthew 23:2310 votes
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
What does the Bible say about herbs?
Readers most often cite Genesis 1:29 on the subject of herbs. Across 413 votes, 17 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:17, Genesis 9:3, Genesis 1:30. This page lists all 17 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.