יֶרֶק
yereq · H3418 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Thing
- GrassPlants for weaving and building100 verses
Meanings
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Green leaves of a plant or tree; eaten by both animals and humans; associated with weakness and mortality (green (leaves, plants))
ExamplesIsaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died, There is no greenery.
How it’s used In 4 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
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- דֶּשֶׁאgreen vegetation 3
- עֶשֶׂבgrass 2
- שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- יָתַרto remain 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָחַךְto lick, to lick up 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 4
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
- λάχανον láchanon · G3001 · garden plant
- Greek λάχανον denotes cultivated edible vegetables specifically, whereas Hebrew יֶרֶק covers the broader semantic range of grass, green plants, and vegetation generally; the equivalence holds in contexts where green edible plants are in view, but λάχανον does not extend to wild grass or non-edible greenery.
- χλωρός chlōrós · G5515 · green, light green, pale
- Greek χλωρός specifically emphasizes the visual quality of greenness or verdant color, while Hebrew יֶרֶק denotes green plants/vegetation more broadly as a category of living things, though both terms overlap substantially in their core green/verdant semantics.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Color002001001014
- The word denotes green vegetation by its color, as with the green plant given for food in Genesis 1:30 and 9:3.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3418. yereq יֶ֫רֶק noun masculineIsa 15:6 green, greenness (on in gardens, see NöZMG…
יֶ֫רֶק noun masculineIsa 15:6 green, greenness (on in gardens, see NöZMG 1876, 777 Löwp. 236 f.) — absolute Exo 10:15; Isa 15:6; construct Gen 1:30 Gen 1:3t.; — עֵשֶׂב יֶרֶק Gen 1:30; Gen 9:3 (both P); דֶּשֶׁא יֶרֶק Psa 37:2 הַשָּׂדֶה יֶרֶק Num 22:4 (E) = green thing, grass; alone Exo 10:15 (J) green thing, including עֵץ and עֵשֶׂב, Isa 15:6.
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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