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# יְרַקְרַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3422

**greenish** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

greenish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3422/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְרַקְרַק: adj. greenish, palegreen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3422/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Sta§ 156, 234) adj. greenish, palegreen (cf. Assyrian raḳraḳḳu, ZimBP 37)—Lv 13:49 ψ 68:14; fpl. יְרַקְרַקּוֹת Lv 14:37;—of plague spots Lv 13:49; 14:37; as subst., ψ 68:14 the green-shim-mering (Che) of gold.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: greenish (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.14/#tree)

אִֽם־תִּשְׁכְּבוּן֮ בֵּ֪ין שְׁפַ֫תָּ֥יִם כַּנְפֵ֣י י֭וֹנָה נֶחְפָּ֣ה בַכֶּ֑סֶף וְ֝אֶבְרוֹתֶ֗יהָ בִּֽירַקְרַ֥ק חָרֽוּץ׃

*Word for word:* if you will.lie.down between \[two\].saddlebags \[the\].wings of.a.dove \[are\].covered with (the) silver and pinions its with greenish of.gold

*JPS 1917:* When ye lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her pinions with the shimmer of gold.

[Leviticus 14:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.37/#tree)

וְרָאָ֣ה אֶת־הַנֶּ֗גַע וְהִנֵּ֤ה הַנֶּ֙גַע֙ בְּקִירֹ֣ת הַבַּ֔יִת שְׁקַֽעֲרוּרֹת֙ יְרַקְרַקֹּ֔ת א֖וֹ אֲדַמְדַּמֹּ֑ת וּמַרְאֵיהֶ֥ן שָׁפָ֖ל מִן־הַקִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see (et) the plague and there! the plague \[is\].in the.walls of the.house depressions greenish or reddish and appearance their \[is\].deep more.than the wall

*JPS 1917:* And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3422.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3422/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).