What Does the Bible Say About Spice Herbs?

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:29-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Ezekiel 47:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices—

Exodus 30:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),

Exodus 12:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Revelation 22:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

John 19:29-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

Isaiah 38:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Numbers 9:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,

Exodus 12:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Genesis 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.

Revelation 22:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Psalm 104:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth

Hebrews 6:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

Romans 14:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 28:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?

Song of Solomon 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.

1 Kings 21:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.”

1 Kings 4:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.

Numbers 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Corinthians 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. ...

Ezekiel 27:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And casks of wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.

Jeremiah 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

Isaiah 18:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Song of Solomon 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.

Proverbs 27:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,

Psalm 37:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

Job 30:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.

Deuteronomy 32:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.

Deuteronomy 11:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables.

Numbers 11:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Genesis 43:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Genesis 30:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.”

Genesis 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

Genesis 1:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

55 Bible Verses about Spice Herbs

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 47:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 30:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 12:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 19:29-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 38:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 9:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 12:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 6:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 28:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 21:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 4:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 27:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 18:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 27:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 30:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 32:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 11:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 11:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 43:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 30:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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