grass, green (thing)

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(for gnawing). Large figurative use (Psa. 90:5-6; Isa. 40:6,8; James 1:10-11; 1 Peter 1:24); sometimes herbage in general (Isa. 15:6); a fuel (Matt. 6:30; Luke 12:28).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

A field in Israel (with anemone coronaria).
This word is often used in scripture for any kind of small herb or fodder. It is frequently referred to metaphorically to represent human frailty. “Surely the people is grass: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth” (Isa. 40:7-8). It is growing one day, and the next it is cast into the oven as fuel (Matt. 6:30).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Transliteration:
yereq
Phonic:
yeh’-rek
Meaning:
from 3417 (in the sense of vacuity of color); properly, pallor, i.e. hence, the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation; concretely, verdure, i.e. grass or vegetation
KJV Usage:
grass, green (thing)