Word

χόρτος

chórtos · G5528 · Greek · 15 occurrences

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GrassPlants for weaving and building100 verses

Meanings

small plants, grass

Small green plants (and in NT contexts referring primarily to green grass in a field or meadow)

Examples
Matthew 6:30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!
Matthew 13:26 “And when the wheat sprouted and produced grain, then the weeds also became evident.
Matthew 14:19 And ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looked up toward heaven. He blessed the food and breaking the loaves, He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
sprout, blade

The young growth of a plant arising from a germinating seed

Examples
Mark 4:28 “The soil produces crops by itself; first the stalk, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

γῆearth 1
ἀγρόςfield, countryside 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 2 groups

χλωρόςgreen 2
πολύςmany 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

κατακαίωto burn something down 1
ξηραίνωto dry up, to wither 1
βλαστάνωto sprout 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 4 groups

ἀμφιέννυμιto clothe 1
ξηραίνωto dry up, to wither 1
ἀμφιέζωto dress 1
ἀδικέωto harm 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

τόποςplace 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

σάρξflesh, body, physical body 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπίon 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἄνθοςflower 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

עֶשֶׂב ʻeseb · H6212 · grass, green plant, vegetation: עֶשֶׂב (ʻeseb, H6212) עֶשֶׂב denotes general vegetation, grass, and herbage as a plant category, serving as the standard Hebrew equivalent for χόρτος (chórtos, G5528) χόρτος in LXX passages describing grass, fodder, or green plants.
חָצִיר châtsîyr · H2682 · leek, grass: חָצִיר (châtsîyr, H2682) (חָצִיר, grass/hay/herb) is the standard Hebrew term for grass and herbage, regularly rendered by χόρτος (chórtos, G5528) in LXX texts where both denote vegetation, pasture grass, or herbaceous plants in natural or agricultural contexts.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Small plants, grass3.15: Matthew 6:30 says, “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!”
Sprout, blade3.48: Mark 4:28 says, “The soil produces crops by itself; first the stalk, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.”

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

χόρτοςchórtos · G5528χορτάζω chortázō · G5526 · to cause to eat one’s fill, to satisfy with food, to eat one’s fill · 15×χόρτασμα chórtasma · G5527 · food · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χόρτου, ὁ; 1. the place where grass grows and animals glaze: Homer, Iliad 11, 774; 24,…

χόρτου, ὁ;
1. the place where grass grows and animals glaze: Homer, Iliad 11, 774; 24, 640.
2. from Hesiod down, grass, herbage, hay, provender: of green grass, Mt 6:30; Mt 14:19; Lk 12:28; Jn 6:10; Jas 1:10; 1 Pet 1:24 (from Isa 40:6ff); Rev 9:4; χόρτος χλωρός, Mk 6:39; Rev 8:7; χόρτος of growing crops, Mt 13:26; Mk 4:28; of hay, 1 Cor 3:12. (the Sept. for חָצִיר, grass, and עֶשֶׂב.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Plants That Are Not Trees14 occurrences Non-Fruit Parts of Plants1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0