Herbs
At the start of Genesis, plants come before people. God says, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,” and the earth does. Then he turns them over as food: “I have given every green herb for meat.” Herbs here are the green growing things, whether for people or for animals, and they come as a gift. Its first appearance is the clearest. Genesis 1:11-12 and 1:29-30 are a good place to start.
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Genesis
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.
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.
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.