Green
χλωρόςStrong’s G5515chlōros
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Chlōros is the Greek word usually translated “green”, “pale” and “green thing”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.”
Meaning
Usually translated “green”, “pale” and “green thing”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- green 2
- pale 1
- green thing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 3
- Mark 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Revelation 6:8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
- Revelation 8:7The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
- Revelation 9:4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Greek dictionary
χλωρός chlōros · green
χλωρός, -ά, -όν (χλόη), [in LXX for יֶרֶק, etc. ;] (a) pale green: χόρτος, Mrk.6:39, Rev.8:7; πᾶν χ., Rev.9:4; (b) pale: ἵππος, Rev.6:8.† (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
- 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.
- New; fresh; recent; as a green wound.
- Fresh; flourishing; undecayed; as green old age.
- Containing its natural juices; not dry; not seasoned; as green wood; green timber.
All definitions and other forms of “green”
- Not roasted; half raw.
- Unripe; immature; not arrived to perfection; as green fruit.
- Immature in age; young; as green in age or judgment.
- 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.
- A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; usually in the plural.
- 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.