Green
יֶ֫רֶקStrong’s H3418yereq (ye-req)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yereq is the Hebrew word usually translated “greenery of”, “greenery” and “like greenery of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Green, greenness, green plants, greenery
How it's translated
- greenery of 2
- greenery 2
- like greenery of 1
- and like greenery of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Exodus 10:15For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 22:4And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
- Psalms 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
- Isaiah 15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Hebrew dictionary
יֶ֫רֶק yereq · green
green, greenness, green plants, greenery
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.