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Moist/green

ὑγρόςStrong’s G5200

hugros

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Hugros is the Greek word usually translated “green”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”
Luke 23:31 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “green”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • green 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    ὑγρός hugros · moist/green

    ὑγρός, -ά, -όν, [in LXX: Jdg.16:7,8 (לַח), Job.8:16 (רָשׂב), Sir.39:13 wet, moist, opposite to ξηρός: of wood, sappy, green: Luk.23:31.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “green” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    GREEN, adjective

    1. Properly, growing, flourishing, as plants; hence, of the color of herbage and plants when growing, a color composed of blue and yellow rays, one of blue and yellow rays, one of the original prismatic colors; verdant.
    2. New; fresh; recent; as a green wound.
    3. Fresh; flourishing; undecayed; as green old age.
    4. Containing its natural juices; not dry; not seasoned; as green wood; green timber.
    All definitions and other forms of “green”
    1. Not roasted; half raw.
    2. Unripe; immature; not arrived to perfection; as green fruit.
    3. Immature in age; young; as green in age or judgment.
    4. Pale; sickly; wan; of a greenish pale color.

    GREEN, noun

    The color of growing plants; a color composed of blue and yellow rays, which, mixed in different proportions, exhibit a variety of shades; as apple green meadow green leek green etc.

    1. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
    2. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; usually in the plural.
    3. The leaves and stems of young plants used in cookery or dressed for food in the spring; in the plural.

    GREEN, verb transitive

    To make green This is used by Thomson and by Barlow, but is not an elegant word, nor indeed hardly legitimate, in the sense in which these writers use it. 'Spring greens the year.' 'God greens the groves.' The only legitimate sense of this verb, if used, would be, to dye green or to change to a green color. A plant growing in a dark room is yellow; let this plant be carried into the open air, and the rays of the sun will green it. This use would correspond with the use of whiten, blacken, redden.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.