Psalm 103:15
Strong's Lexicon
As for man,
אֱ֭נוֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: 1) man 1a) man, male (in contrast to woman, female) 1b) husband 1c) human being, person (in contrast to God) 1d) servant 1e) mankind 1f) champion 1g) great man 2) whosoever 3) each (adjective)

his days
יָמָ֑יו (yā·māw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

are like grass—
כֶּחָצִ֣יר (ke·ḥā·ṣîr)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2682: 1) grass, leek, green grass, herbage 1a) grass 1b) of the quickly perishing (fig.)

he blooms
יָצִֽיץ׃ (yā·ṣîṣ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6692: 1) to blossom, shine, sparkle 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to flourish 1a2) to shine, gleam 1b) (Hiphil) to blossom, put forth blossoms, produce blossoms 2) (Hiphil) to gaze, peep, glance, make the eyes sparkle

like a flower
כְּצִ֥יץ (kə·ṣîṣ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6731: 1) flower, bloom 1a) flower, bloom 1b) shining thing (of gold plate on high priest's mitre) (metaph.) 2) feather, wing 2a) meaning dubious

of the field
הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה (haś·śā·ḏeh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7704: 1) field, land 1a) cultivated field 1b) of home of wild beasts 1c) plain (opposed to mountain) 1d) land (opposed to sea)

כֵּ֣ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3651: adv 1) so, therefore, thus 1a) thus, so 1b) just so 1c) therefore 1d) so...as (paired with adv) 1e) then 1f) forasmuch as (in phrase) 1g) (with prep) 1g1) therefore, this being so (specific) 1g2) hitherto 1g3) therefore, on this ground (general) 1g4) afterwards 1g5) in such case adj 2) right, just, honest, true, veritable 2a) right, just, honest 2b) correct 2c) true, veritable 2d) true!, right!, correct! (in assent)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Young's Literal Translation
Mortal man! as grass [are] his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As for man, his days are like grass — he blooms like a flower of the field;

New American Standard Bible
As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

King James Bible
[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;

New Living Translation
Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.

English Standard Version
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

New American Standard Bible
As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

King James Bible
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As for man, his days are like grass-- he blooms like a flower of the field;

International Standard Version
A person's life is like grass— it blossoms like wild flowers,

NET Bible
A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

American Standard Version
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

English Revised Version
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Young's Literal Translation
Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
















Cross References
James 1:10
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Psalm 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Isaiah 40:6
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 103:14
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Psalm 103:13
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:16
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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