יָרוֹק
yârôwq · H3387 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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(Mostly) Green plants, used for food (green (leaves, plants))
ExamplesJob 39:8 “He explores the mountains of his pasture, And searches after every green thing.
How it’s used In 1 role
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After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַחַרafter, behind 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- דֶּשֶׁא desheʼ · H1877 · green vegetation, grass
- Refers to fresh green vegetation/grass; overlaps semantically with יָרוֹק as both denote green plant material, though דֶּשֶׁא emphasizes tender shoots rather than the color/state itself.
- עֶשֶׂב ʻeseb · H6212 · grass, green plant, vegetation
- General term for herbaceous vegetation and green plants; semantically overlaps with יָרוֹק in denoting green plant matter, though עֵשֶׂב is a broader category term for plants rather than focusing on the green quality.
Contrasting words 1 word
- יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh · H3002 · dry, dried
- Standard lexical opposite: green/fresh vegetation vs. dry/withered vegetation; יָבֵשׁ describes the state of plants that have lost moisture and vitality, the natural opposite of green/fresh plant material.
In the other Testament 1 word
- χλωρός chlōrós · G5515 · green, light green, pale
- Standard Greek translation-equivalent for the color/state 'green' in botanical and general contexts; LXX regularly uses χλωρός to render Hebrew terms for green vegetation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Plants001002007001
- The word denotes green, fresh vegetation, describing a green plant or herb as a category of living growth.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3387. yaroq יָרוֺק noun [masculine] green thing (= יָרָק), only as food of wild ass Job…
יָרוֺק noun [masculine] green thing (= יָרָק), only as food of wild ass Job 39:8.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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